Finding Key Lookups In Cached Execution Plans
Ask anyone with performance tuning experience to list the most expensive operations in an execution plan and it's a safe...
2010-07-29
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Kendal Van Dyke
SQLRally Logo Contest - Fame & Fortune Up For Grabs!
Now that the PASS SQLRally (formerly known as the spring event) has a name it's time to start building a...
2010-07-22
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Getting Started In Blogging And Technical Speaking - At The 2010 PASS Summit
In case you missed it the Program Session (60 min. long) selections are now available on the 2010 PASS Summit...
2010-07-21
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Introducing The PASS SQLRally
If you're a PASS member you may have noticed in this morning's Community Connector that the 2011 spring event I...
2010-07-14
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In The Spotlight!
I received an unexpected but certainly not unwelcome email last night letting me know that I've been selected to present...
2010-06-23
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PASS 2011 Spring Event In Orlando
In March of this year the PASS Board of Directors began kicking around the idea of holding some kind of...
2010-06-21
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Presenting At OPASS June 15
On Tuesday, June 15, I'm presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room at the Orlando SQL Server...
2010-06-10
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PASS Summit 2010 Abstract Submissions
I submitted three abstracts for the 2010 PASS Summit this year - two "normal" (75 minute) and one spotlight (90 minute)...
2010-06-08
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"Troubleshooting Transaction Replication" Published In SQL Server Magazine
I've been published! My article Troubleshooting Transactional Replicationis featured in the June 2010 issue of SQL Server Magazine (subscription required...
2010-05-28
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STS-132 NASA Tweetup or "I've Won A Golden Ticket!"
Note: This is a very non-SQL Server related post. If you don't want to read something personal about me feel...
2010-05-11
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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