March Madness – SQL Server style
Bodypaint not required
It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
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Blog Posts
Moving MASTER Database
In my previous post we see how to move MSDB database, today we will see how to move or relocate...
2012-03-08
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SQL Server – netstat monitoring and tuning performance
To display network connections and various network interface statistics – netstat is a handy command – line based tool.
Why is it...
2012-03-08
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What is a Favicon?
If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites to which they belong? I would dare say that...
2012-03-08
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What is a Favicon?
If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites...
2012-03-08
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Why I am excited about SQL Server 2012
By now many of you have had the opportunity to hear or see something about the next release of SQL...
2012-03-08
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Backing up a Certificate
If you create your own certificate in SQL Server, you need to make sure that you back it up immediately....
2012-03-07 (first published: 2012-02-27)
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Enabling Filestream in SQL Server 2012
Filestream is a cool feature, albeit one that’s cumbersome to use in SQL Server 2008 and R2. However the FileTable...
2012-03-07
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I’m sorry, you’ve committed a GIANT INTERNET FAIL (#SQL2012)
Updated with links to no-login goodness. Updated again with IE rage.
This week, Microsoft announced the SQL Server 2012 release to...
2012-03-07
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Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series Processors Released
Yesterday, Intel finally released the much anticipated Xeon E5-2600 family of processors, also known as Sandy Bridge-EP. This is a...
2012-03-07
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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