2015-07-24
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Professional Development – Set the Bar High
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Henry Ford is reported to have once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.” That’s great insight. Too often...
2015-07-23
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DBTA – Does the Looming Shortage in DBAs Spell Opportunity?
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In my last column, available HERE, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing new...
2015-07-22
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Implementing Partial Backups and Restores (via Leveraging Partitions)
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 5. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-07-06
14 reads
Implementing Partial Backups and Restores (via Leveraging Partitions)
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 5. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-07-06
11 reads
Implementing Partial Backups and Restores (via Leveraging Partitions)
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 5. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-07-06
10 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
8 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
10 reads
Rebuilding Existing Partitioned Tables to a New Partition Scheme
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 4. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-06-09
10 reads
2015-05-13
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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
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A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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