Daily Coping 14 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-14
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Blog Posts
Too many coding standards : T-SQL Tuesday #151
One of my favorite people, Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter), is our host this month and she’d like to talk about coding ... Continue reading
2022-06-14
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T-SQL Tuesday 151: T-SQL Coding Standards
It’s that time of the month again, the blog party, woohoo! This time Mala Mahadevan (b | t) has invited us to blog about our T-SQL coding standards. I...
2022-06-14
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Who is Updating That Table? – SQL Audit
I had a problem at work recently where a record was getting updated, and no one knew where or what was updating the record. Our team discussed the best...
2022-06-14
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2022 State of PostgreSQL Survey
Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
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Daily Coping 13 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-13
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dbatools - Rich Datatypes
Some datatypes can be shown in so many different forms (think measurament units, dates with short/long forms, or regional settings) that can be difficult to have a standard. What...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-06-02)
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Why You (usually) Want a Clustered Index
Note: I originally wrote this a few years ago but never posted it. It resurfaced when I migrated the blog so it’s being posted now.
After watching Kevin Kline’s (blog...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-05-16)
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Daily Coping 10 Jun 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-06-10
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Running dynamic SQL in a different database
This is one of those things that on hindsight was a stupid problem, but still cost me hours and a ... Continue reading
2022-06-10 (first published: 2022-05-19)
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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