Mechanical Blog Posts
Mechanical posts are ones that are either auto-generated, or manually input with no real additional work put into them - an example...
2008-09-22
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The Agile Cult
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren to write a bit about why I wrote something....
2008-09-22
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The quiet is deafening...
It's been a while since I've written a blog post that wasn't a user group announcement. Here's what I've been...
2008-09-22
679 reads
Laptops Part 1
I've been using a Dell Latitude for a looong time, probably going back to 2000 or 2001. Decent machine - though...
2008-09-21
791 reads
DBA team building
Whenver we start a somewhat big IT project, it is natural for us to build a team dedicated to the...
2008-09-20
2,724 reads
What's Your Favorite Trek Episode?
Most of my posts here are reasonably serious, and really this one is too, but a but of humor mixed in....
2008-09-18
664 reads
Business of Software 2008 - Noah Wasserman
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-18
749 reads
Tampa Code Camp is December 2, 2008
In recent years this event has been held in July, but this year they ran into problems when the planned...
2008-09-17
455 reads
Business of Software 2008 - Richard Stallman
I'm starting a series of blog posts from the Business of Software conference
that I attended last week in Boston. If...
2008-09-17
967 reads
Cross Functional Teams & Cross Training
Cross functional teams sounds a lot like a buzzword, and maybe it is to a degree - but still worth talking...
2008-09-16
567 reads
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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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