Advice for 2023 PASS Data Community Summit Attendees
Edwin Sarmiento has a great First Timer Guide for the PASS Data Community Summit, which is updated for 2023. He’s been compiling this since 2016, and it’s worth reading....
2023-11-09
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Running a Command Line SQL Compare Comparison
Recently a customer was looking to automate some of their SQL Compare checks, but they wanted to do this in a dynamic way, since they needed to do this...
2023-11-20 (first published: 2023-11-08)
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All the chapters in my data architecture book are now available!
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-11-06
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Creating a Self Referencing FK in a CREATE Statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had written about a FK in a CREATE TABLE statement recently, but the second half of this was that after the original question, the person asked if this...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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How to write efficient TSQL
This is an article on How to write efficient TSQL. When it comes to composing T-SQL (Transact-SQL) code, there exist a multitude of vital considerations developers should bear in...
2023-11-20 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-05)
📰 News Process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Read how to process Azure Event Hubs data using ADF for certain use cases. Automate...
2023-11-05
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Help! My Docker SQL Instance Won’t Start!
One day, I shut down my computer, as I usually do nightly. This time, I shut it down on a Friday and turned it back on after a holiday...
2023-11-17 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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Friday Flyway Tips–Seeing Pending Migrations
I find that quite a few people using Flyway will end up with a lot of migration scripts over time. While you can certainly re-baseline and split scripts into...
2023-11-03
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A New Word: Zielschmerz
zielschmerz – n. the dread of pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer...
2023-11-03
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Summit 2023 Is Nearly Here!
All week, my phone has been reminding me (via photo memories) of the amazing experience I had at PASS Summit 2017. This can mean only one thing - PASS...
2023-11-10 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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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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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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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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