PASS 2012 Countdown – 1 Week To Go
Oh, dear! One more week until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet, you’re really cutting it close. ...
2012-10-30
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #4
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-29
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Decoding first, root, and FirstIAM in Sysindexes
Have you ever looked at the first, root, and FirstIAM columns in sysindexes and wondered…
“What do these values mean?”
Recently, I...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-23)
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Reblog: October 19 to October 25
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-26
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PASS 2012 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go
I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really...
2012-10-25
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Discovering Binary Pages In Sys.Indexes
In a previous post, we looked at how to take the the binary page values in sysindexes and convert the...
2012-10-24
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #3
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-22
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What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes?
In my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables, I’ve been going through the compatibility views in SQL Server...
2012-10-22
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Ask The Unicorn: SQL Saturday Registration Is Closed
Right before the last Minnesota SQL Saturday, I was asked a few questions about learning about SQL Server which led...
2012-10-20
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysforeignkeys
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-19 (first published: 2012-10-16)
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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