Dell Selling an iSCSI Box
Saw an plug for it from our sales rep yesterday, MD3000i. Starts at $7300 with just a couple drives, goes...
2007-09-11
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Vacation... and the need for it
I have been on vacation the last week, which meant I spent the previous three weeks at work preparing to...
2007-09-10
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SQLSaturday - Who are the Customers?
For those who might not have browsed previous posts I'm heading up a free one day training event called SQLSaturday...
2007-09-10
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SQL 2008 CTP4 Available - If you have time!
Makes me yearn for a faster connection, about a 2300 mb download to get all the various pieces and if...
2007-09-10
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Background Images in Reporting Services posted on SSC
I wrote this up based on some questions in our recent BI class where we spend almost a full day...
2007-09-06
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CodePlex, CodeZone, and Connect
You might have visited these already, but it's interesting to see MS diversify a bit from the standard MSDN template....
2007-09-06
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Registration is Open for SQLSaturday Orlando
It's taken a while to get here, but we're finally accepting registrations for the event. This link will take you...
2007-08-31
1,340 reads
The End of an Era
I went and cleaned out the Central Publishing Group colocation cage at Viawest. We've been there for 3 years and...
2007-08-30
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Blogging on Blogs & Professional Development
Steve posted an interesting editorial on blogs at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=263&messageid=393904 and the follow up discussion was pretty interesting. Read that if...
2007-08-30
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Getting Random Results Posted on SSC
I previously blogged about using newid() to get random ordering and after chatting with Steve about it, decided to write...
2007-08-30
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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