Venting Frustration
We as DBA’s face an ever growing list of things to do and services to support. We work in high...
2012-01-25
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Blog Posts
Windows 8 Easy Refresh?
I saw this write up about the built in ability to both restore to factory settings as well as just...
2012-01-25
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Windows Phone 7 and epic efforts to publish applications
Reblogged from betim drenica's blog:
There is plenty of time I am developing applications for Windows Phone and… tools are great...
2012-01-25
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Windows Phone 7 and epic efforts to publish applications
Reblogged from betim drenica's blog:
There is plenty of time I am developing applications for Windows Phone and…
tools are great (aka...
2012-01-25
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A New SSD For My Laptop
I’ve managed to get by for more than 3 years with the original 64G SSD in my laptop, but lately...
2012-01-24
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A Script a Day
In February I will be starting a series of Blog Posts I'm calling a "A Script a Day". Each day...
2012-01-24
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Actual Emails: Is "NOLOCK is the epitome of evil?"
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:30 AM
To: William Assaf
Subject: dba has a questionWilliam,
Can you send me references to support my contention that NOLOCK...
2012-01-24 (first published: 2012-01-21)
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Afterthoughts: IT Pro Camp Orlando 2012
This past Saturday January 21, 2012 I had the opportunity to speak at my first IT Pro Camp in Orlando,...
2012-01-24
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Clicking on Links in Email
Every security awareness presentation makes the warning about opening attachments or clicking on links in emails when you don't know...
2012-01-24
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Determining Active Directory Group Membership
As discussed in my previous post I prefer to use Windows authentication over SQL authentication on my SQL Servers. There...
2012-01-24
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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