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What's in a name? (T-SQL Tuesday #152)

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This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...

2022-07-29 (first published: )

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I recently passed the second anniversary of the start of my stay in the hospital. A lot has happened since ... Continue reading

2022-07-28

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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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