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David McCandless Keynoting at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014

Bringing together business analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence and IT pros, the PASS BA Conference will feature 65+ best-practices, how-to, and strategy sessions by top BA/BI experts. Keynoting this year is Information Is Beautiful author David McCandless.

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2014-03-31

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SQL Saturday #287 - Madison, WI

SQL Saturday is coming to Madison on March 29, 2014. This is a free training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Steve Jones and many others will be presenting, so make sure you register early to secure your place.

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2014-03-13

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Worst Day as a DBA

Survey - The DBA-Team wants to hear about your worst day as a DBA. Did a database restore fail due to corruption? Did you accidentally connect to Prod instead of Dev and truncate a table? Anonymity available. The best story will win a $50 Amazon voucher.

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2014-03-12

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SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Performance-Related Database Settings

If you manage a server where you are not in complete control of the creation of databases, or you’re unfamiliar with what settings to change, you may miss things out or set them incorrectly. This metric could pick up on issues that affect performance in obscure ways, and saves you having to search for them when a system suddenly stops performing as you would expect.

2014-03-11

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BIT_COUNT() IV

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count('A')
What is returned?

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