Which is Better: Heaps or Tables with Clustered Indexes?
I have always been of the personal opinion that all SQL Server tables have a clustered index. As part of...
2009-02-13
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Another Reason to Avoid Cross-Database Ownership Chaining
This past weekend we were moving database files around because we added new LUNs to an existing production cluster. We...
2009-02-13
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SQL Injection - It's Not Just Me!!
I have a personal web site I set up years ago, mainly so I could post stuff for my extended...
2009-02-13
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Color E-Ink
I love my Kindle, but it uses an older e-ink technology that's a little slow and doesn't support color. Not...
2009-02-13
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Landing on the Hudson River & Being a Hero
I think we've all seen and heard about Flight 1549 doing the emergency landing on the Hudson River. Truly a...
2009-02-12
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Inserting Markup into a String with SQL
There are a number of occasions when one might want to insert information at various places in a string. Where...
2009-02-12
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Things You Know Now…
Someone tagged me, and I’ve lost the email in all the pile up from vacation where I was very, very...
2009-02-12
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Word Up
A short post today. For a while I've been subscribing to the Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster (free) and...
2009-02-11
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Networking - Part 4
You may want to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 before continuing. This time around I'd like to...
2009-02-11
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Speaking at the West Palm Beach SQL Group in May 2009
Scott Klein invited me to speak to his group in West Palm Beach, so I'll be going down on May...
2009-02-11
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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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Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
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