Book Review: American Promethius: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer
I picked up a copy of this from the local library after reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer...
2009-06-11
613 reads
Book Review: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ($14 @ Amazon) was a good book, enjoyed reading it. Some interesting tidbits...
2009-06-11
363 reads
Tagged: The Desert Island Scenario
I was tagged by Scary DBA and recent MVP awardee Grant Fritchey with the latest viral question:
“So You’re On A...
2009-06-11
1,358 reads
Planning for a Disaster
Early last week, my church suffered a lightning strike that did quite a bit of damage (relatively speaking) to computer and...
2009-06-11
838 reads
Why You'll Want to Create Your Temp Tables Before Populating them
The point of this post is to cleary explain how the combination of the use of data definition language for your temporary...
2009-06-11
1,132 reads
A $200 Knife
While I was in Pensacola last weekend, I sat next to Andy Warren and I was telling him about getting...
2009-06-11
700 reads
Writing Technical Articles - Finding Ideas
This is part two of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
2009-06-11
1,686 reads
First Thoughts on Windows 7
I am at times an early adopter of technology. I like newer, better tools, but they have to be something...
2009-06-10
419 reads
What is wrong with people?
I hope this isn't real, but I suspect it is.
If this image disappears, I promise not to sue.
2009-06-10
619 reads
SQLSaturday #14 – Speaker Results
I got my results from Karla Remail on the SQLSaturday talk over the weekend. I was surprised since typically other...
2009-06-10
348 reads
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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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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