Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can You and Your Family From Disasters
Picked up Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness from the local library on a whim without looking at anything except...
2009-09-03
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Blog Posts
Thoughts on the 24 hours of PASS
From all indications, the first 24 hours of PASS was a resounding success. Hundreds of attendees for each session, minimal...
2009-09-03
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Use the Best Tool for the Task - Part 2
Yesterday I posted about how Transact-SQL was better suited than SMO for gathering details about database files for a database...
2009-09-03
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Warming up Analysis Services with Preallocate
With Windows Server 2003 many people found that Analysis Services (SSAS) was slow to get going sometimes. So a preallocate...
2009-09-03
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24 Hours of PASS was an Adventure
On July 21, just a few short weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Rick Heiges, who is on the...
2009-09-02
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Article of the Week – SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Enhancements
I have been following this series of articles since the first article was published on SQLServerCentral. The author, Arshad Ali,...
2009-09-02
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Building a Better Blog
I had a great session for the 24 Hours of PASS on Building a Better Blog. Not sure how well...
2009-09-02
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Data Type Synonyms
Today on sql server central QOD. very interesting question on Data Type Synonyms...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/questions/Programming/67390/
We can use the synonyms data type also...
2009-09-02
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Finally Migrating from SQL 2000
I suspect I’m not alone in that I’ve had SQL 2000 running for a long time with no problems and...
2009-09-02
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How practical is a netbook?
I’ve I was having lunch with another SQL Geek and we were talking about netbooks and how practical they are....
2009-09-02
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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