Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
2009-10-22
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Articles
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
531 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
574 reads
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
2009-10-22
468 reads
Enabling the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) in SQL Server Express
SQL Server Express has the same code base as the rest of the versions of SQL Server, but there are some differences in how to set it up and configure various tasks. MVP Brian Kelley shows us how to enable the Dedicated Administrator Connection.
2009-10-21
5,988 reads
SQL Bits IV
Coming to Newport in the UK on Nov 19-21, be sure to register and attend if you are nearby. A few days of great SQL Server training.
2009-10-21 (first published: 2009-09-21)
1,912 reads
Data Cleansing with the SSIS Data Flow
A webinar from MVP Brian Knight and Pragmatic Works this week will help you learn how to clean up data and apply business rules in your data flows.
2009-10-21 (first published: 2009-10-19)
5,648 reads
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 1)
Last week, I had lunch with an old friend who is, by his own definition, technologically ignorant. While we caught up, he asked me to explain in terms he could understand what I do for a living. I went through one of my spiels (the one usually..
2009-10-21
1,724 reads
Using The Transfer Jobs Task in SQL Server Integration Services
Database Administrators can use the Transfer Jobs Task to transfer one or more SQL Server Agent Jobs between different SQL Server instances
2009-10-21
2,013 reads
Being Around Smart People is Exciting
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
2009-10-20
528 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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