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AWS RDS Aurora - our first approach

When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many data engineers face the challenge of leveraging its cutting-edge features while maintaining performance and reliability....

2026-05-22 (first published: )

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Understanding Fabric MCP

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more complicated than it really is. The easiest way to think about it is this: MCP...

2026-05-20 (first published: )

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Why Claude?

Every major model out there can summarise documents, write code and answer multi step questions – then if you decide to go with a specific vendor based on costs...

2026-05-18 (first published: )

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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production

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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...

How to Provision an Azure SQL Database

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Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...

Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)

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If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...

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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it

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Fixing P1 Queries

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BIT_COUNT() IV

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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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?

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