The Advantage of Seattle - Where to host the PASS Community Summit
I heard during last week that the 2009 PASS Community Summit will be back in Seattle, on Nov 3-6 next...
2008-11-25
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Digging into Replication
It's fun to read good work, and my friend Kendal Van Dyke recently posted How CommitBatchSize And CommitBatchThreshold Affect Replication....
2008-11-24
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Raising the Bar
Turning up the heat. Take it up a notch. Stepping up to the plate. Less talk, more action.
However you choose...
2008-11-24
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Immersed in work, and missing out on everything else
After 2 years working on a data conversion and software implementation project, I’ve finally started to get caught up on...
2008-11-24
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Post PASS Summit 2008
So now that PASS is over and life is getting back to normal I thought it would share my final...
2008-11-24
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Looking Back at the PASS 2008 Summit
I definitely need to write up a few summaries about last week, but right now I'm a bit buried with...
2008-11-24
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PASS Day 5 (Fri)
Friday I was up early for breakfast and check out of the hotel, then down to the convention center to...
2008-11-23
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SQLSaturday #8 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations are one real benefit that speakers derive from participating in community events - a chance to see how they...
2008-11-23
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The Need to Catch Up
I got back Friday afternoon from the PASS Summit and immediately was busy with family stuff. In fact, through Saturday...
2008-11-23
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PASS
I arrived home this morning after another PASS Summit. This is my 6th in a row. Each year I have...
2008-11-22
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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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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