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KQL Series – quick intro to Azure Data Explorer

Azure Data Explorer is a PaaS offering from Azure providing an end-to-end solution for data exploration. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/individually-great-collectively-unmatched-announcing-updates-to-3-great-azure-data-services/ Here is a quick introduction of the features: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-explorer/#features This service from...

2022-04-15 (first published: )

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Talk to the duck.

Over the years, one of the best pieces of problem solving advice I’ve been able to give my kids is ... Continue reading

2022-04-15 (first published: )

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Azure Redis Commands

Now that we have created our Redis Cache lets connect to it. You can use the most common tool redis cli.exe https://redis.io/download or as I am going to do,...

2022-04-14

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Creating a Generic SSRS Report

Creating useful reports is part art and part science. On one end of the spectrum, you have visually appealing and highly customized reports and dashboards that are truly works...

2022-04-13 (first published: )

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Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK

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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production

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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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