T-SQL Tuesday #49: Topic is … Wait for It …
Have you been waiting to hear about this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic? Here’s the announcement, right here and right now....
2013-12-05
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Introduction to Integrity: Data Purity Errors
The final day of this six part series, Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera and their new free tool SQL...
2013-09-19
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Introduction to Integrity: Chain Linkage Problems
We’re approaching the end of our six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera with our last two postings...
2013-09-17
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New Whitepaper: 5 Most Common Critical SQL Integrity Issues
Have you been putting off running integrity checks on your databases? Are you unsire where to start or what to...
2013-09-16
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Nonclustered Indexes
It’s day four of our six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera, and tonight’s topic is going to...
2013-09-12
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Clustered Indexes and Heaps
For day three of this six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera, we will take a look at...
2013-09-10
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Introduction to Integrity: Corruption in Allocation Pages
Welcome back for day two of this six part series Introduction to Integrity, sponsored by Idera. In this post, I...
2013-09-05
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Introduction to Integrity: Interpreting DBCC CHECKDB Results
I want to start a short 6 post series to serve as an introduction to integrity in SQL Server. Most...
2013-09-03
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Is the Master Certification Dead or Will it be Born Again?
The Certified Master and Architect community was collectively notified Friday, August 30, 10 PM Pacific Time (Microsoft Time) that the...
2013-09-01
938 reads
Setting My Course for Adventure and You Can Too
I’m setting my course for a new adventure, my mind on a new … undertaking. My apologies if you thought this...
2013-08-14
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BIT_COUNT() III
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count(-1)What is returned? See possible answers