Next up: #SQLSat107, HOU (and #SQLRally)
For me, conference season begins with the new year, and ends with the PASS Summit (sorry, November and December SQL...
2012-04-17
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Blog Posts
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #2: Keyword compare between Oracle and SQL Server
While attending a recent Windows Azure Quick Start, the presenter, Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) happened to show a table on his...
2012-04-17
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released
This morning, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6, which is Build 10.50.2811.0. This Cumulative Update lists 20 fixes...
2012-04-17
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TDS Endpoints: SQL Server’s “Listener”
In the land of Oracle, if you want to prevent user access to your database, you stop the listener. Without...
2012-04-17
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Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone?
Last week the SQL community and in particular the blogosphere, was buzzing with interest noise following the Microsoft Learning site...
2012-04-17
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Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas that the next...
2012-04-17
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"Soft Skills" books
In my professional development presentation, I list the "soft skills" books that I have found most helpful in my career to date. You can find...
2012-04-16
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10 must follow blogs that might not be in your list
There are few memes going around in the SQL world. Probably the most popular of them is TSQL Tuesday (#tsql2sday)....
2012-04-16
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Apply SP1 to SQL Server 2008R2 on active/active cluster.
While researching the steps required to service pack SQL Server on an active active cluster I came across a lot...
2012-04-16
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Creating a User without a Login – Contained Databases
In SQL Server 2012, we have a new feature: partially contained databases. In a previous post, I showed how to...
2012-04-16
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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