August SQL Server User Group – Near Real-time Data Warehouse
Well we had a really good meeting this week at our User Group. There were about 17 physical attendees and...
2009-08-19
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Blog Posts
Buck Woody Joins SQLSaturday Advisory Council
Just announced at http://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2009/08/sqlsaturday-advisory-council-newest.html, Buck makes three – one more to go coming up soon!
2009-08-19
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Don’t Use USE (in SSIS, at least)
I ran into a situation this week that brought to light a subtle syntactical error I’d made in creating an...
2009-08-19
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I/O You a followup - More about I/O, Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting....
Yesterday, I blogged about basic I/O usage with some useful scripts, DMVs, and links to more in-depth details on examining...
2009-08-19
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Looking for SQL Speakers Near Wheeling, WV
I had a great call with John Sterrett last week about the possibility of having a SQLSaturday in Wheeling and...
2009-08-19
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Partitioning Strangeness
Ran across this in a recent class while covering partitioning. Start by creating a standard partitioning function and the scheme,...
2009-08-19
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Tampabay SQL Server User Group Presentation
I presented a one-hour session for Tampabay SQL Server User Group on Powershell and SQL Server. I've previously delivered this session for the...
2009-08-19
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Updated Blog List
I added a new blogger to my list. I was surfing around for a few good examples to use in...
2009-08-19
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I/O I/O - It's why my server's slow.....Examing I\O Statistics
I/O I/O - It's why my server's slow.....
Often I've been curious about ways to measure the performance of SQL Server, and...
2009-08-18
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Comparing Settings Entreprise-Wide with SQL admin toolset’s Server Configuration app.
In the Spring of 2008 Idera launched its SQL admin toolset at a super low deal of around two hundred...
2009-08-18
1,804 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...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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