The Oscars
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
2009-01-29
589 reads
Steve Jones
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The Oscars
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
2009-01-29
548 reads
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-28
382 reads
Who Do We Choose to Follow?
Think about your career and the managers, and potentially leaders, that you’ve had in your life. Think about life in...
2009-01-28
2,034 reads
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
2009-01-28
520 reads
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
2009-01-28
777 reads
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
2009-01-28
535 reads
2009-01-28
3,026 reads
It's Your Ship
I saw this book (It's Your Ship) in a Barnes and Noble and the title and cover attracted me. So...
2009-01-27
1,782 reads
The January 2009 Car Update
With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-27
151 reads
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