Notes on My Visit to Birmingham SQL Group
Spent last Tues/Wed in Birmingham, speaking at the user group Tuesday night and then presenting a seminar on Wed. Attendance...
2008-06-22
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One Note
Lately I've been trying out a few new pieces of software to see how well they work. One is Twitter,...
2008-06-20
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Transparent, Translucent, or Opaque? Whats Your Strategy?
It's a couple weeks old, but there was a mild blog roar over some comments from Microsoft about wanting to...
2008-06-19
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Virtual Conference II
Check out the SSWUG Virtual Conference next week. Here is a link with more information: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/sswug/demo.asp . The first 200 people...
2008-06-19
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SQLSaturday #4 Lessons Learned
Earlier in the week I posted a quick & positive note about the event, today I'll add some notes about things...
2008-06-18
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Asking a SQL Question
I've been a little surprised lately by some of the questions I've seen in our forums at SQLServerCentral.com with questions...
2008-06-18
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Link: Killing Terminal Service Connections
Needed to kill a connection so I get could logged on recently to a server and didn't have the server...
2008-06-17
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Off-Topic: Microsoft Marketing
I saw a blog post by Robert Hensing talking about Microsoft's new GPS product and its very uncreative name. This...
2008-06-17
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Community Speakers/Leaders - Where's the ROI?
I participated in a lunch meeting recently with a number of people from MS that work on their community efforts,...
2008-06-16
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Trigger Notes
One of the questions that came up during a panel discussion at SQLSaturday #4 was whether it was better to...
2008-06-15
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers