Upcoming Presentations
I'll be attending the South Florida Code Camp on Feb 2 and also SQLSaturday Tampa on Feb 16th. For both...
2008-01-16
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SQL Server 2005 Replication bug?
Last week, in our production, we noticed some records are missing in the subscriber side while existing on the publisher...
2008-01-15
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Covert It Live
I watch the Geekbrief update a few times a week, partially to see new gadgets and partially to see how...
2008-01-15
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Hot Subtract
Over the last few weeks I've seen a few posts about the new Hot-Add CPU feature in SQL Server 2008....
2008-01-14
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E-Readers, Will They Ever Take Off?
I was discussing the Kindle recently with business partner Steve Jones and while we both like the idea of having...
2008-01-14
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Evaluating Speakers at Events
Speakers tend to live for the evals. Hopefully it's a validation of work done well after a lot of time...
2008-01-09
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On the Importance of Documentation...
It seems that I keep inheriting old systems that provide a singular, albeit mission critical, function to their owners. In...
2008-01-09
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Sometimes You Need an Analog Solution, Sorta - Earth Class Mail
Spotted this on the Webware feed, Earth Class Mail is a service that opens and scans your regular mail so...
2008-01-09
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SQL Injection, Again!
Many posts including this one about as many as 70,000 sites being hacked using SQL injection and a vulnerability in...
2008-01-09
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Partitioning Part 3 Posted on SSC
Part looks at using views for partitioning, still a valid technique even in the SQL 2005 world. I added in...
2008-01-08
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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)...
Forums
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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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