SQL Saturday #46 - Raleigh
A free one day training event in Raleigh, NC. Come to the first SQL Saturday in this city on Sept 18, 2010
2010-09-13 (first published: 2010-09-02)
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Articles
2010-09-10 (first published: 2008-11-17)
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Identifying and Eliminating the Dreaded Cartesian Product
Cartesian Products usually don't provide useful information and often result in mistakes that can hurt your database developer career. Learn to spot Cartesian Joins and banish them from your SELECT queries forever.
2010-09-10
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SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia
SQL Saturday Columbia, SC gives you a chance to get a full day of free SQL Server information, lectures, and seminars from the experts on the East Coast.
2010-09-10
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Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 2
How does the query optimizer build an execution plan for your queries? Paul White shows is in part two of a four-part series exploring the internals of query optimization.
2010-09-09
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Webinar: Turn your backups into live databases with SQL Virtual Restore
Find out in this webinar how easy it is with Red Gate's SQL Virtual Restore to mount live, fully functional databases direct from backups – without performing a physical restore. Learn how you can use SQL Virtual Restore to save storage space and time across a wide range of database administration activities.
2010-09-09
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AdvanceTimePolicy and Point Event Streams In StreamInsight.
There are a number of ways to issues CTIs (Current Time Increments) into your StreamInsight streams but a quite useful way is to do it declaratively on your source factory like this
2010-09-09
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An Informal Look at Database Performance
A review on the basic steps to correct a poorly performing query
2010-09-08
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The DIS-Information Principle: A Splitting Headache
You can easily re-factor bad DML code, but if a database design is wrong, you can do little to rescue the problem, even with expert queries. So what constitutes 'wrong RDBMS design? What are these errors that continually crop up? How can you recognise them and fix them? Joe embarks on a new series of articles by identifying a series of bad practices based on the habit of 'splitting' that which shouldn't be split.
2010-09-08
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Early September Free Training from PASS VCs
Hope you got plenty of rest over your Labor Day holiday because the PASS Virtual Chapters have some great free training lined up for you.
2010-09-07
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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