Being a Professional
There's a lot to it, but I see Tim Ford has a nice blog post on what it means to...
2008-12-04
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Learning SQL Server
I had an interesting question from someone that I respect and I’ve seen answering questions and writing a few articles...
2008-12-04
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight - Virtualization Everything
Speaker: Paul Shearer
Midlands PASS Chapter - December 4, 2008 Meeting
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally scheduled meeting on Thursday,...
2008-12-04
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What Does a PASS Summit Cost?
Hopefully in the next week or so the full financial info will be released to all members, but in the...
2008-12-03
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Kindle Update - December
A few of you might be thinking about getting a Kindle for Christmas.If you read a lot, and you move...
2008-12-03
736 reads
OLEDB Wait Stats in SQL Server 2005
Over the past several months, I’ve started diving into the world of wait stats on my instances. An ever present...
2008-12-03
724 reads
Quickbooks 2009 - Not As Good as 2007
Recently I needed to rearrange some stuff at the office and part of that included moving our install of Quickbooks...
2008-12-02
251 reads
[Off Topic] I’ve caved to peer pressure…
… and joined Twitter. I’m only doing it ‘cuz everybody else is doing it. With all the other social networking tools...
2008-12-02
628 reads
The Next Generation DBA
DBA, database developer, analyst, SQL grunt, or whatever your title may be, there is no question that your role will...
2008-12-02
796 reads
My Thoughts: Report Builder 2.0
General Thoughts
One of my brother’s favorite lines to use in presentations says it best, “If Microsoft had 10 dollars to...
2008-12-02
960 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