Understanding SQL Server Full-text Indexing – (Part 2)
Checkout the final part of this two part article series here, in which I discussed how to create full-text index...
2013-09-17
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Understanding SQL Server Full-text Indexing – (Part 1)
SQL Server allows applications and users to execute full- text search queries against character based data in SQL Server tables....
2013-09-17
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Up or out? Deciding on SQL Server scalability
Scalability is the ability of a system to support an increased workload by adding incremental system resources without fundamentally changing...
2013-08-06
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SQL Server upgrade paths: What to do before, during, after upgrading
Creating SQL Server upgrade paths from one version to another is a task that every database administrator is eager to...
2013-08-06
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Guide to SQL Server Table Indexes (Part 3)
Checkout the part-3 of my five part article series on Guide to SQL Server Table Indexeshere, in which you will learn...
2013-08-06
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Guide to SQL Server Table Indexes (Part 2)
Checkout the part-2 of my five part article series on Guide to SQL Server Table Indexeshere, in which you will learn...
2013-08-06
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Designing and Implementing Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Architecture – (Part 2)
SQL Server allows applications and users to execute full- text search queries against character based data in SQL Server tables....
2013-08-06
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Understanding Data Normalization
Normalization, which is the key part of the OLTP databases logical design process, is a design requirement for OLTP databases....
2013-08-06
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Guide to SQL Server Table Indexes (Part 1)
One of the most important tasks for every database administrator (DBA) is to ensure that query times are consistent with...
2013-07-15
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Understanding SQL Server Query Optimization Statistics
SQL Server query optimizer uses statistics to create query plans that improve query performance. For most queries, the query optimizer...
2013-07-15
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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...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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