PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
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March Question: What is the biggest mistake/problem you have ever found on a SQL Server instance, and how did you fix it?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-03-01
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Speaker Evaluations for SQLSaturday #32 – Tampa
I recently received my Speaker Evaluations for my session, Why I Use Stored Procedures, from Pam Shaw (@pamshaw) and as...
2010-03-01
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How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 2
In part one we installed and configured the Oracle client software, in this post we will query an Oracle database...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 1
In this two part blog post we will demonstrate how to query an Oracle database from Powershell. Before we can...
2010-03-01
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta Impressions
I attended and presented at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta yesterday, where I had a very nice time. Julie Yack...
2010-02-28
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta – Beginning SQL Server
At the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta this past weekend in Denver, I presented a talk on “Beginning SQL Server”, a...
2010-02-28
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Weekly Electrical Usage from Google PowerMeter
Since I like to measure and monitor things (maybe that is why I am a DBA), and I care about...
2010-02-28
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SQL Agent – Giving non-SA users permissions on jobs
There are some new database roles in the MSDB database in SQL Server 2005 that allow you to grant more...
2010-02-28
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Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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