How to Deal with the Difficult Forum User
It has happened to us all at one time or another. We are trying to help someone on an online...
2009-03-25
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Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS
I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...
2009-03-25
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What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
2009-03-25
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Touch Your Resume
One of the pieces of advice that I give in my talk "The Modern Resume" is that you should review,...
2009-03-25
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Overload & Stress - Part 2
Yesterday I was commenting on how a big part of stress for me is getting that sudden burst of work...
2009-03-24
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PASS 2009 Summit Site Open
Registration has been open since the last Summit, but this year Bill Graziano and team have released the Summit 2009...
2009-03-24
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating Women In Technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I don't...
2009-03-24
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Tips for Submitting Speaking Abstracts to the 2009 PASS Community Summit
As most of you know now, the Call for Speakers for the 2009 PASS Community Summit is open from March...
2009-03-24
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Great IT Teambuilding – Star Trek
When I worked at JD Edwards years ago, we were looking for monthly teambuilding exercises that would help our group...
2009-03-24
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Overload & Stress - Part 1
As I gain more experience I've found that stress comes in three forms; stress that is there that you don't...
2009-03-23
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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