Thursday at the PASS Community Summit
The last full day of the 2009 PASS Community Summit was the first day I have had at the conference...
2009-11-07
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Blog Posts
Worldwide Operating System Market Share for October 2009
Ars Technica has a good post up showing that Windows 7, (which has been out for two weeks) has already...
2009-11-07
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Geek of the Week
I made geek of the week. I’m sorry, but I’m excited by that. I’m very proud to be a geek....
2009-11-06
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Great Post on Parallel vs.. Series SSIS
Mike Davis, Author and consultant extraordinaire recently posted a great new take on parallel vs. series SSIS packages. Some interesting...
2009-11-06
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Identity Issues
Have you ever received the following Error when developing your ETL or working with data cleanup?
Msg 544, Level 16, State...
2009-11-06
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Montreal as a City State: Can a DBA Go Beyond their Workplace to Provoke Change in their Region?
I am very impressed with Michel David’s work, and openly endorse much of his great piece of work at MontrealCityState.ca...
2009-11-06
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OFF-TOPIC: Surviving, Missing Folks, Glad I'm Home
I certainly wish circumstances were different and I would have been able to attend the PASS Summit this week. I...
2009-11-06
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PASS Summit 2009 Day 3
The day started off with a mixed bag. First we had an honestly tearful farewell with Wayne Snyder saying goodbye to...
2009-11-06
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Tampa Code Camp
Looking forward to a great Tamp Code Camp tomorrow. My first code camp. I’ve had some great experiences at the...
2009-11-06
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PASS Conference 2009 Oddities and Curiosities
Down on the docks in Seattle there's a shop of oddities and curiosities where one can find things like a...
2009-11-05
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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