Performance Benefits of Adding RAM to a Laptop
I have a pretty nice Dell Latitude E6420 that I am using as a loaner laptop while I wait for...
2011-06-30
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Glenn Berry
CPU-Z 1.58 Released
Version 1.58 of the very useful utility CPU-Z was released on June 24, 2011. Originally (and still) popular for bragging...
2011-06-27
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A Tale of Two Sandy Bridge Laptops
I recently bought a new teaching and presentation laptop, which is a Toshiba Portege R835-P55X, which I found at the...
2011-06-21
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Presenting Two Sessions at PASS Summit 2011
I found out earlier this week that I was fortunate enough to have my half day session on “Scaling SQL...
2011-06-19
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Three New TPC-E Submissions
I just noticed three very recent new TPC-E Benchmark Submissions that I thought were quite interesting. As I have written...
2011-06-15
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Moving On To New Challenges
After nearly five and half years, I left NewsGator Technologies for a new position as a Database Architect at Avalara,...
2011-06-13
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June 2011 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries
Since it is June, I thought it was time to update my SQL Server 2008 (and 2008 R2) Diagnostic Information...
2011-06-02
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PASS Announces Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for PASS 2011 Summit
Today, PASS announced the Pre-conference and Spotlight Sessions for the PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, which will run from October...
2011-06-01
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Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011
I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...
2011-05-20
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Presenting at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19
I will be giving the main presentation at this month’s meeting of the Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May...
2011-05-17
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers