More Information for Prospective PASS Speakers
If you have already submitted an abstract for the 2009 PASS Community Summit, or you are still thinking about it,...
2009-04-02
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Midlands PASS Meeting Tonight!
Next Meeting - April 2, 2009
SPEAKER:Paul S. Waters
During Paul’s 16 years of working in IT, he has held a variety of...
2009-04-02
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SQLSaturday #11 Tacoma - Cancelled
Just head from Greg Larsen yesterday that he just ran out of time to put things together. As I've mentioned...
2009-04-02
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Why Tape is Good
I write an editorial about why I thought tape still had a place in backups. There were some interesting responses...
2009-04-02
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LinkedIn - Part 2
Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...
2009-04-01
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Undocumented Trace Flag Improves Performance By Up To 25%
As a production DBA I love to tweak things to optimal perfection. After all, if I paid for the hardware...
2009-04-01
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Congratulations to MVP Grant Fritchey
Announced today on his blog at http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/mvp/. Well earned in my opinion between his participation with PASS, SSC, and his...
2009-04-01
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Congratulations to Grant Fritchey
He was awarded MVP status today, no joke, for his work in the community.
According to his blog, it’s not a...
2009-04-01
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Moving to MySQL
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software....
2009-04-01
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bedpost - It's Business Time
Further off topic than usual, but I ran across this as I browsed Springwise after a friend suggested it might...
2009-04-01
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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