2024-08-23
30 reads
One Month with the Dell Latitude 7450
It was just over a month ago that I got a Dell Latitude 7450 from our corporate IT group. It wasn’t my first choice, but as Redgate grows, they’re...
2024-08-23
33 reads
A New Word: Midding
midding – n. the tranquil pleasure of being near a gathering but not quite in it – hovering on the perimeter of a campfire, talking quietly outside a party,...
2024-08-23
86 reads
Back to Syracuse for SQL Saturday
Syracuse is having their first SQL Saturday on Sept 7, 2024. I’ll be there and hope to see you there as well. If you’re anywhere close, come on over...
2024-08-22
38 reads
Creating a Test Pipeline in Azure DevOps using a Windows Agent
A customer was having some trouble getting started with Azure DevOps (AzDO) and building their database, so we took a step back and decided to create a simple test...
2024-09-06 (first published: 2024-08-21)
549 reads
How to Excel in Board Meetings as a CFO
The post How to Excel in Board Meetings as a CFO appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-08-20
26 reads
Building Studio in Public: Maintaining High Performance in Our Local Development App for Enhanced UX
In this post, we share the strategies and techniques we've implemented to ensure our Electron-based Studio app runs smoothly, delivering a high-performance user experience.
2024-08-20
29 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: Changing the Fragmentation Alert
I had a customer that was concerned about the fragmentation alert for indexes and wanted to know how to change it. This post discusses the change. This is part...
2024-08-19
47 reads
What Are the Most Common Blockers to Adopting SQL Server Extended Events?
Yeah, stupid long title. It’s a question I put to several different AI engines. I’m curious what the aggregated knowledge of the internet has to say on the topic...
2024-09-09 (first published: 2024-08-19)
317 reads
My personal experience Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application: Deploy to AWS ECR using Github…
My personal experience Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application: Deploy to AWS ECR using Github ActionsI recently received a request on how to Dockerize a Ruby on Rails application after...
2024-08-19
61 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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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