Give us SP3!
There has been a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the scuttlebutt that SP2 will be the...
2008-03-12
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Blog Posts
Building YOUR Brand
Between teaching classes, attending community events, and participating in the local user group I get to have a lot of...
2008-03-11
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SQLSaturday #3 Jacksonville Update
Just spoke with Brian this morning to get an event update for SQLSaturday #3:
122 attendees registered so far (event is...
2008-03-11
483 reads
Presenter View in Powerpoint 2007
Friday I gave another iteration of our free Sucessful Technical Speaking class, upgraded some since the last version, and this was...
2008-03-10
552 reads
Performance Tuning Seminar in Jacksonville, FL on May 2, 2008
I'll be teaching a one day performance tuning seminar that targets beginning DBA's and developers that do data access, hoping to...
2008-03-09
769 reads
A Joint Effort
Oneof my tasks for our mini-Summit for Red Gate was to show the crew how I do the podcasts. There...
2008-03-08
961 reads
Are All Meetings Bad?
I was mildly amused by my friend Steve Jones blog post Finding a Direction about not really wanting to spend...
2008-03-06
540 reads
SQL Server Data Services Announcement (Competitor to Amazon SimpleDB)
Mary Jo Foley reports that MS is signing up testers for a hosted SQL Server solution called SQL Server Data...
2008-03-06
728 reads
Finding a Direction
I'm not a bg fan of long meetings. I used to try and plan an hour a week staff meeting...
2008-03-04
887 reads
Orlando Code Camp 2008 - Registration & Call for Speakers is Open
My friend Shawn Weisfeld is expecting more than 400 attendees at Orlando Code Camp this year. There will be at...
2008-03-04
341 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Forums
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers