Another Use of XML
XBRL is yet another use of XML, this time for financial reporting. It is supposed to be in place for...
2008-12-30
1,724 reads
It's All About the Wireless Access
Steve Jones tells me that the biggest advantage that the Kindle offers is the ability to browse and buy a...
2008-12-29
1,395 reads
Review of Seadragon: Microsoft’s iPhone application
So I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing around with the Seadragon application and have come to some conclusions.
Usefullness...
2008-12-29
1,483 reads
Joel Spolsky on servant leadership
With the holidays about over, I'm catching up on my RSS feed reading. This is an article from the beginning...
2008-12-29
1,617 reads
SSIS – Avoid OLE DB Command
I decided to do a little performance testing on some common SSIS “Tricks” that increase speed and effectiveness of SSIS...
2008-12-29
14,307 reads
2008-12-29
1,522 reads
April Fools Challenge
I know it's not April 1st yet, but I wanted to throw out a couple comments and a challenge well...
2008-12-28
1,513 reads
One Year In
I got my Toshiba Qosmio a little over a year ago and it has been a great machine for me...
2008-12-26
1,450 reads
A Little Work
Tia came down and asked if we should do something with the kids, bowling, movies, etc. I told her I...
2008-12-26
1,432 reads
When Data Mining Goes Too Far
Data mining is commonly used to find otherwise undetectable patterns in related sets of data. However, sometimes these patterns provide...
2008-12-26
1,523 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...
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