Reblog: October 12 to October 18
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-19
519 reads
StrateSQL
Indexing Book Winner
Back on October 3, I put up a post about a free indexing book. And specifically about Expert Performance Indexing for...
2012-10-17
572 reads
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfulltextcatalogs
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-17
634 reads
PASS 2012 Countdown – 3 Weeks To Go
Another week down and there are now 3-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. Take a moment and register now if...
2012-10-17
1,750 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #2
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-15
718 reads
Ask the Unicorn: How to become a DBA?
Every now and then I get a question in e-mail and I usually just reply and leave it at that. ...
2012-10-12
691 reads
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfiles
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-12
1,154 reads
Reblog: October 5 to October 11
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-12
489 reads
24 Hours of PASS Recordings Online
This just in… the 24 Hours of PASS sessions are in and available for streaming. If you missed an hour...
2012-10-11
1,029 reads
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfilegroups
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-11
775 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