Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate
The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...
2008-05-02
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Blog Posts
Podcast Upgrades
A minor change for the podcasts next week. I got my wireless microphone, and I'm working with it a bit...
2008-05-02
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Looking for Incremental Improvements
If you've read my blog much you'll know that I'm deeply involved in trying to figure out how to build...
2008-05-01
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Technorati
I've never really been a big fan of many of the aggregation sites. As such I have never really used...
2008-05-01
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The Post Count
One of the things that I made a conscious effort to do last summer was make a regular effort to...
2008-05-01
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Review of Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability
I grabbed Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Allan Hirt recently to add to the library and I've been...
2008-04-30
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Building Raffle Tickets for SQLSaturday
Raffle tickets have become a mainstay of our events, making it easy to handle the large volume of items donated...
2008-04-29
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Mentoring
I've never been much of a mentor to people, partially not having the chance, partially focusing too much on myself,...
2008-04-29
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More on Mentoring
Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here...
2008-04-28
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SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville - Final Reminder!
Just checked the registrations and we're at 354, with plenty of room for more! Brian has been busy tweaking the...
2008-04-28
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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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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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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