Free Subscriptions to Visual Studio Magazine
First time I've noticed this being offered, saw it posted on the Orlando .Net Users Group (ONETUG) site. Sign up...
2008-01-21
1,450 reads
Learning to Blog via Books
I was chatting with a friend recently and in the course of 'what are you up to lately' I mentioned...
2008-01-20
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Connecting to a Reporting Services Model
There's always been some confusion about models in Reporting Services, many people ignore them thinking that they are only for...
2008-01-18
1,567 reads
Free Ebook Chapter(Book) - Introducing SQL Server 2008
Saw it mentioned in the recent MSPress newsletter, Peter DeBetta is writing Introducing SQL Server 2008 and right now Chapter...
2008-01-18
867 reads
The Interviewer is Wrong
Michael Coles had an interesting post about a job interview a friend went on. The person answered questions correctly, but...
2008-01-17
885 reads
MVP Chat
My first MVP chat was today, a monthly hour long session where we have a Microsoft representative and we all...
2008-01-17
725 reads
MS Making .Net Framework Source Code Available
Scott Guthrie posted the announcement on his blog today. It's a 'read only' license with a few other limitations, but...
2008-01-17
767 reads
Partitioning Part 4 Posted on SSC
Partitioning Part 4 concludes the series with a look at 'real' partitioning in SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition. Overall the series...
2008-01-17
567 reads
Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
743 reads
Sun Acquires MySQL
Just posted on Jonathan Schartz's blog. They've definitely been playing more in the open source arena, now they've got a...
2008-01-16
642 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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