Tour de Career: Prologue
Tour de Career
It’s July and for some that means baseball and bar-b-ques. For me it means my birthday and Tour...
2010-07-16
648 reads
sqlchicken
T-SQL Tuesday #008: Gettin’ Schooled
Here we go again with another round of T-SQL Tuesday fun this time brought to you by recent SQL Certified...
2010-07-13
636 reads
Exceptional DBA of the Year 2010 Finalist!
This post is a tad overdue as the public announcement was a few weeks back but it’s been a topsy-turvy...
2010-07-12
449 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #007 – Roundup
New hotness
First of all I apologize for this roundup taking more time than usual to appear. This last week was...
2010-06-14
670 reads
PowerShell I Heart You
PowerShell = Giggity Giggity Goo
Ok so in the last 48 hours I think I’ve fallen madly in love with PowerShell. My...
2010-06-10
913 reads
Professional Development Event:Taking Control of Your Career
This is just a reminder that this month’s Professional Development virtual chapter meeting we have MVP, PASS Board member, and...
2010-06-07
411 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #007: Summertime in the SQL
Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #007
New hotness
Welcome back to the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. I’m honored to be hosting...
2010-06-01
597 reads
Mea Culpa: TweetRandomizer-gate
If you’ve ever read Spider-Man or spent any sort of time around the Marvel Universe (movies included) you’ll have no...
2010-05-15
654 reads
PASS Professional Development VC Reboot!
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that this week marks the return of the PASS Professional...
2010-05-10
470 reads
The PowerShell and XML Corollary
Girl Property Surrounded by Geek Objects
I’ve just started watching The Big Bang Theory so I figured I’d borrow a naming...
2010-04-27
802 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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