SQL PASS Summit 2009 - Day 2
Day two of the summit found me in the keynote, an interesting but much too long (2 hours) for comfort. ...
2009-11-03
666 reads
Blog Posts
Table and Index Partitioning Demo
I get a lot of requests for explanations about the different concepts and the easiest way to demo partitioning in...
2009-11-03
357 reads
Tabs Out of Control
I was working with a team of developers this week who were having the hardest time finding the keystroke to...
2009-11-03
330 reads
The Best Day of the Year - The SQLServerCentral Party at the PASS Summit
Each year I host an opening night party at the PASS Summit. I set up a deal years ago with...
2009-11-03
1,434 reads
The Enduring DBA
We are all facing the challenges of this new economy. There are very few people and industries in the world...
2009-11-03
301 reads
Ups and Downs of Cases in SSMS 2008
Recently I was working with client and they were discussing the pet peeves of some of the new intellisense features...
2009-11-03
401 reads
Week of Warehousing - Questions Answered
Greg emailed me a great question from my week of warehousing webinar the other day. We were discussing disk performance...
2009-11-03
270 reads
Week of Warehousing Review
How exciting was last week! Some of the top experts in the country all gathered together through support from SQLServerCentral.com,...
2009-11-03
204 reads
2009 PASS Community Summit Registration Starts Out Strong
Registration for the 2009 PASS Community Summit started out strong with many attendees registering early the Sunday evening before the...
2009-11-02
485 reads
Day –2 (Sun) at the PASS Summit 2009
Flew out of Orlando direct to Seattle, leaving at 8:30 and arriving about 1130 am Seattle time. Nice flight, no...
2009-11-02
359 reads
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why SQL Server Database Attach...
Fixing P1 Queries
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Fixing P1 Queries
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