PASS Update #17
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while, but have been waiting for the board elections to close. Lots...
2009-10-22
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Opinions about PASS
There has been quite a discussion today on the direction of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server) and some...
2009-10-22
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PASS Board of Directors Election
Anyone who has an Internet connection has kept up with PASS-related news during the past couple of weeks is keenly...
2009-10-22
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Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
2009-10-22
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Habits and Activities for De-Stressing
I was chatting on FaceBook today with a guy from my church who is learning to be a network engineer. He's...
2009-10-22
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Notes from SQLSaturday – Part 2
Picking up from yesterday, once we got through the confusion of the room changes everything settled down. I checked the...
2009-10-21
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Characters
No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had...
2009-10-21
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PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
Mike Walsh, who is a PASS volunteer, has done a nice job organizing the PASS Summit Birds of a Feather...
2009-10-21
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Yes, I am a square, but not the way my wife thinks.
I’ll be on the Twitter Bingo card along with a lot of other great SQL Server folks at Pass! Quest...
2009-10-21
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Presentations from SQL Saturday Orlando now online !
My presentation and sample files from SQLSaturday in Orlando are now online for you to download. Check them out at...
2009-10-21
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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