Dev Days
I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...
2009-10-16
1,161 reads
Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?
Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...
2009-10-16
493 reads
Book Review: The Deceived
The Deceived by Brett Battles
I haven’t post on any fiction lately, thought it was time to write about something more...
2009-10-15
354 reads
SQLSaturday #21 Is Tomorrow (Oct 17)
I’m writing this in advance because I’ll be busy with all the last minute preparations, but I’m looking forward to...
2009-10-15
291 reads
The PASS Board of Directors Election
There has been some great discussion about the upcoming PASS Board of Directors election over on Brent Ozar’s blog. If...
2009-10-15
1,258 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement
Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...
2009-10-15
623 reads
A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance
1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.
Microsoft's...
2009-10-15
3,407 reads
Are you sticking to your goals? Do you know what they are?
I've engaged a little in the discussion on Matt Morollo's interview on Brent Ozar's blog. It made me go back...
2009-10-15
1,199 reads
Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Non-Managers
In my last post I talked about how I think managers should approach off-hours work with their teams. It's a...
2009-10-15
542 reads
SQL MVP Profile of the Week - Michael Coles
As we continue to get ready for the NY\NJ SQLSaturday User Group meeting this October 24, 2009, I had the...
2009-10-15
1,166 reads
Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
Forums
Communication, For Incidents and Life
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
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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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