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2010-01-05
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit – Where to Hold it in 2011
Bill Graziano posted some thoughts about the merits of East Coast vs West Coast placement of the Summit. He did...
2010-01-05
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Primary Key Discovery
As a part of my DB documentation process for a large database, I needed a method to quickly show me...
2010-01-05
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Sometimes the tools don’t work
We have a lot of administrative tools for SQLServerCentral that are available online. Most of the work I do can...
2010-01-05
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What Matters Is What They Want
In September 1986 my family returned to Beaufort, SC, from a three year tour stationed at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. My father was...
2010-01-05
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2010-01-04
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Almost Back from Vacation
I’ve been ‘on vacation’ for two weeks and it’s been nice to relax. I wasn’t able to unplug entirely, but...
2010-01-04
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Early Reviews of New Intel 32nm Desktop and Mobile CPUs
Well, now that the holidays are over and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is nearly upon us, we are starting...
2010-01-04
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Stripe Size, Block Size, and IO Patterns
If you have been following this series we have covered system buses, hard disks, host bus adapters and RAID. Along...
2010-01-04
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Is it a problem if I don’t blog?
I’ve had a few people ask me this question. It’s the new year, many people are making New Year’s resolutions,...
2010-01-04
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers