Beta Testers Needed for IT Project, Task and Request Management System
My friend Michael Lato sent me an email asking if I would take a look at his newest venture called...
2009-03-16
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Google Replication
One of the things that I've struggled with for some time is how to manage my data across multiple machines....
2009-03-16
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Accessing results in a random order: Towards the automated Thank-you letter
Most of the time, you want to have a SQL result in a particular order. Occasionally you just don't care....
2009-03-16
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Weeding Out Discrimination in the Workplace – A Note to Government Institutions in Quebec, and ex-Premier Bernard Landry
In response to former Quebec Premier Bernard Landry’s comments of this past week regarding the posting of Michael Sabia as...
2009-03-15
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Five Device Sync
Last night I was at the store with Delaney after karate and he mentioned that we needed to go pick...
2009-03-13
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Make the 2009 PASS Summit Better: Offer Your Speaking Tips to Others
This year, I was asked to participate on the PASS Program Committee Management team as the “Speaker Manager.” One of...
2009-03-13
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Disconnected From Data
I was looking at Twitter the other day and saw a few of the people I follow debating the need...
2009-03-13
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Dot Net Usergroup in Montreal Presentation notes - Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
Yesterday evening I gave a talk about Grouping Sets in SQL 2008 thanks in part to the original front-page blog post...
2009-03-13
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PASS Update #8
Last week I was in Seattle, so I decided to stay an extra day and drive up to Vancouver to...
2009-03-12
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SQL Server 2008 SP1 CTP - Released
Hi everyone, just little info that we have available the Service Pack 1 for SQL Server2008!
About overview, instructions, system...
2009-03-12
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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...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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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