Honoring a Contest
Over the last six months or so, Pepsi has been running a PepsiStuff promotion on many of their products. They...
2009-01-15
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PASS Update #2
It's been about two weeks since I posted PASS Update #1, so time for another update on my activities as...
2009-01-14
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European PASS Conference to be Held in Germany in April 2009
If you couldn’t make it to the 2008 PASS Community Summit in Seattle, WA last fall, perhaps you can attend...
2009-01-14
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Increasing Productivity
There was a time that I really felt I would be more productive with two monitors. I think I found...
2009-01-14
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Featured Blog: John Magnabosco
One of my goals for the year is to update my blog roll some and try to recognize new/interesting bloggers....
2009-01-13
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SQLBits IV to be Held in Manchester England March 28, 2009
SQLBits is the largest free SQL Server conference in Europe, and will include 20 hours of SQL Server sessions to...
2009-01-13
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Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta Will Be On February 21, 2009
If you live in the Colorado area, you might want to attend the upcoming, free Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta event,...
2009-01-13
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What a day to start Blogging
I have been thinking of writting a blog for the past 6 months but never had time or could I...
2009-01-13
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Laptop Prevents Fire
Last night, Steve Jones, 41, was preparing a pot of brown rice. After feeling all, he was making a bland...
2009-01-13
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Analog Solutions & External Services - Sometimes It Works
I'm a technology guy, but one lesson I've learned is that not all solutions can be solved by throwing technology...
2009-01-12
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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