Watch: Kendra Breaks and Fixes SQL Source Control (9 minutes)
I love breaking technology. Well, I love breaking technology on purpose, in a place where it’s not going to slow anyone else down. It’s a great way to learn...
2019-03-04
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New Free Videos on SQL Prompt, SQL Compare, and SQL Doc with Redgate’s SQL Change Automation
I’m excited to have just clicked ‘publish’ on four new videos in the brand new Evangelist Tutorials playlist on Redgate’s YouTube channel. These videos step through setting up and...
2019-02-15
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What a Software Evangelist Does – and Where the Job is Going (Dear SQL DBA Episode 67)
I’ve been working as an Evangelist at Redgate for close to six months now, and one question keeps coming up: what exactly does an Evangelist do at a software...
2019-01-29
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State vs Migration for Database Source Control – decide based on one question
One controversial topic in database development is how to properly store and deploy database changes. This is generally described as choosing between two options, which are approximately as easy...
2019-01-23
20 reads
DBA Jobs: Threats and Opportunities (Dear SQL DBA Episode 66)
Jobs change over time, and database administrator jobs are no different. In this 35 minute recorded Twitch livestream (my first ever!) I talk about threats to DBA jobs and...
2019-01-18
13 reads
3 Key Points from My Upcoming Talk, “DevOps: What, Who, Why, and How?”
Next week, I’m giving a free webcast for Redgate on DevOps fundamentals. DevOps is something I am a big proponent of for database administrators, developers, and company leaders. The...
2019-01-17
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Watch all my free PASS Summit recordings– and more videos at Pass.org
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, by the way, sign up here). In the midst of a discussion about the...
2019-01-16
50 reads
Watch: Can This Team Succeed at DevOps? Panel discussion
I recently participated in a panel discussion for the SQL PASS DevOps virtual chapter. If you didn’t make the meeting, you can catch our 90 minute discussion here about...
2019-01-10
4 reads
What ‘Digital Transformation’ Means, and How You Can Use It to Advance Your Career (video)
I recently spoke at the GroupBy free online conference. It was loads of fun, and the recordings from the event are now available. Here’s the hour long session I...
2019-01-03
9 reads
Do 75% of data breaches really come from “insiders”?
There’s a lot of information out there on data breaches. I’ve written before about one source that I trust — the Verizon Data Breach Report (DBIR). The 2018 DBIR...
2019-01-02
12 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...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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