Daily Coping 12 Apr 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...
2022-04-12
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #149 – T-SQL Advice you’d give to your younger self
It’s the second Tuesday of the month, so it’s time for the T-SQL Tuesday blog party! This month’s topic is chosen by Camila Henrique (blog): what T-SQL advice would...
2022-04-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #149–Advice about T-SQL to a Younger Me
It’s that time of the month again, when we have the T-SQL Tuesday blog party. This month we have a new host, Camilia Henrique with an invitation on advice...
2022-04-12
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Webinar – Intro to Azure Data Factory
I’m excited to announce I’m giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com, with “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” as the subject. The webinar will take place at Tuesday May the 3th,...
2022-04-12
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Azure IoT Central
This is a short blog to give you a high-level overview on a product called Azure IoT Central. I saw this fairly new Azure product (GA Sept 2018) in...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Daily Coping 11 Apr 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...
2022-04-11
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KQL Series – how not to waste $ running ADX clusters
This blog post is based on my personal experience running an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) cluster. I was doing a presentation for Data Platform Summit in India, I spun...
2022-04-11 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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Query Hash and Query Plan Hash Mapping
The problem
As a fan of Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs), Query Store and Extended Events, I often work with the Query Hash and Query Plan Hash (I’ll refer to them...
2022-04-11
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Daily Coping 8 Apr 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...
2022-04-08
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Quick Tip: Remove CONVERTCAST from your WHEREJOIN clauses
Quick Tip Remove CONVERT/CAST from your WHERE clauses and JOINS when comparing to variables of different data types. Set their data types to match your table definitions before using...
2022-04-08 (first published: 2022-03-28)
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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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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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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