What Is Really Interesting?
When I wrote the editorial for today on A Humbling Experience,
I was sure that it would generate a bunch of...
2005-07-07
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Interviewing a DBA
Andy and I had an interesting question on this today. He's trying to
hire a DBA and he had his first...
2005-07-05
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To Blog or Not To Blog
Blogging seemed like a big deal in 2004. At the 2003 PASS Summit, we were told by Microsoft that they...
2005-06-29
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My First Blog!
At least here 🙂 Normally I blog over at http://www.dkranch.net/
That's usually personal stuff going on in my life, so I'll try...
2005-06-28
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Courtney Woolum
A longer bio or profile text can go here in Markdown. There should be a lot more here
2001-01-01
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2001-01-01
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Privacy Policy
The Agile SQL CLub Privacy Policy (google Made me do it) The website uses cookies to track views and where you go, if you block cookies then they will...
2001-01-01
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Privacy Policy
The Agile SQL CLub Privacy Policy (google Made me do it) The website uses cookies to track views and where you go, if you block cookies then they will...
2001-01-01
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2001-01-01
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About Ed Elliott
Hi,
My name is Ed Elliott, I live in Sussex, England with my family. I work in and around data and when people ask me what I do for a...
2000-02-12
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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)...
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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