Sale on SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning
Just a quick post to let you know that there’s a great sale right now at Springer on my brand new, completely rewritten, query performance tuning book. Get your...
2022-11-21
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Blog Posts
SQL Temporal Tables — Gotcha!!!
Hello, again reader… Today, I will discuss a gotcha I ran across with SQL Server Temporal Tables. In my day-to-day environment, we do not use Temporal Tables widely. However,...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 11-14-2022 Live! 360
Hello Dear Reader! Last week was a week we have been building towards since the launch of Tales from the Field. My favorite conference every single year, Live! 360. ...
2022-11-21
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Where Is My SQL Server Errorlog?
If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Session Materials – PASS Data Community Summit and Cloudbrew
You can find the slides and demo scripts for my sessions at Cloudbrew (Snowflake) and PASS Data Community Summit (Migrate SSIS skills to ADF) in my Github repo. If...
2022-11-19
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2022 PASS Data Community Summit Recap: Power BI Meets Programmability – XMLA, TOM, C#
Thank you to everyone who made it out to PASS Data Community Summit! I have greatly enjoyed meeting so many fellow data nerds and have learned so much from...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Daily Coping 18 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be creative, cook, draw, write, paint, make, or inspire. While I do play some guitar, I’m not much for painting. Certainly I write a...
2022-11-18
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Data Manipulation with Word and Excel
Recently I had to go through some training that asked me to evaluate some text. I needed to tally some data up, and decided Word and Excel were quick...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-31-2022
Hello Dear Reader! Last week was Halloween and I hope you all had a fantastic time. Halloween has long been my favorite holiday. The cost of participation is imagination,...
2022-11-18 (first published: 2022-11-07)
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#PASSDataSummit – Keynote 2 Live Blogging
Happy to be chosen to live blog the keynote events out at the PASSDataSummit in Seattle, Washington this week. This page will be updated through the Keynotes, all you...
2022-11-17
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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