A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 8
For Day 8 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended Intel Processor List for...
2011-04-08
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Glenn Berry
A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 7
For Day 7 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free...
2011-04-07
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Presenting Dr. DMV by Live Meeting on April 19 at 12PM CDT
I will be presenting my Dr. DMV presentation for the St. Louis SQL Server User’s Group on April 19. Here...
2011-04-07
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 6
For Day 6 of this series, I am going to talk about a few useful tools you can use to...
2011-04-06
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Getting More Hardware Information from SQL Server Denali DMV Queries
As I recently discussed, I often hear from database professionals who are not allowed to access their database servers directly....
2011-04-06
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 5
For Day 5, I will be covering a few tools that can be used for hardware identification. Since quite a...
2011-04-05
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Adding a processor_description column to sys.dm_os_sys_info in SQL Server Denali
I opened a new Connect Item today, asking Microsoft to add a new column to the sys.dm_os_sys_info DMV in SQL...
2011-04-05
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 4
Day 4 of this series is about the upcoming AMD “Bulldozer” family of processors that is due to be released...
2011-04-04
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 3
Lest anyone accuse me of ignoring AMD in this series, I will talk about the AMD Opteron 6100 series processors...
2011-04-03
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A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 1
Well, I apparently did not learn my lesson last year, when I did a month long series called “A DMV...
2011-04-02
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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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