PASS Summit Evals – Plan Cache Querying
This past year, I spoke at the PASS Summit for the second time. The first time was a couple years...
2012-01-04
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StrateSQL
January 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of January and for most of us it’s probably a vacation day. No fear, you can...
2012-01-02
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Wrapping Up 2011
Goal Setting
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year to see where I landed from where I...
2012-01-02
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Re-blog – December 23 – December 29
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-30
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SQL Saturday 99 – Confio Interview
Welcome to the seventh of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog |@ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-29
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SQL MCM Study Group
Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server...
2011-12-26
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Re-blog – December 16 – December 22
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-23
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The #Meme15 Round-Up
The first round of #meme15 has finished. In total, there were eighteen people that participated. If there were more, I...
2011-12-22
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Why Do I Blog? #meme15
As I mentioned in a post last week, a new meme has been born. This one is dedicated to discussing...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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Re-blog – December 9 – December 15
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-16
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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