Advice I Like: Apologies
How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse – from Excellent Advice for Living This is great advice. I remember myself often saying “I’m...
2025-01-17
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Blog Posts
Build a Serverless Todo App With AWS, Pulumi, and Python
Try this step-by-step guide to build and deploy a scalable serverless app that’s accessible through a RESTful API.Developers charged with building modern, scalable applications often face the burden of having...
2025-01-17
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Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments
One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-10)
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Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and surfing the web isn't good for us, but we still do it. Why? Because it...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-07)
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Master SQL Subqueries with This Free Course
Want to boost your SQL game? Check out this free course, SQL Subqueries: Real-World Exercises for All Levels. It covers subqueries – a must-have tool for any SQL pro....
2025-01-16
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2025-01-16
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How to Convert FileTime to DateTime
One of my customers recently wanted to rename each of the SQL audit files will the datetime stamp of when it was created. I explained to them the filename...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2024-11-05)
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SQL Server Error 9002 – Full Transaction Log
A full transaction log can occur for a number of reasons. Typically it is due to the log not being truncated with regular transaction log backups, or something else...
2025-01-15
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Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows and tooling. A lot of people have loved SQL Compare or SQL Source Control for...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2025-01-08)
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SQL Saturday Oregon & SW Washington 2024
Wow I am so late in posting these notes! But this conference was amazing, so figured still good to post my notes from the incredible sessions I attended! Hope...
2025-01-14
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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...
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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