Lean Six Sigma – Brief
When you have a project or system, it has to be optimized, tuned, and we must ensure it is consistently performing better. For this, we should use the Lean...
2026-07-14
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DataSaturday Rheinland – Slides
The slides for my session “The €100 data warehouse on the Azure data platform” can be found on GitHub. It was a calm event, probably because of the good...
2026-07-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals
NO AI was used to generate this content. Grammarly was used to check and correct language and sentences in parts. I just managed to get a post in for...
2026-07-13
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Project Management – Part 1
The soul of project management is Process Group(PG) and Knowledge Area(KA). they are related and grouped as follows: Process Group[49] Knowledge Area with Process I will write detail blog...
2026-07-13
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Install SQL Server 2025 Container on macOS Using OrbStack
My old Dell XPS that I used for personal stuff started to degrade; well, it's old, and it has already served past its useful life. So, a few months...
2026-07-22 (first published: 2026-07-13)
185 reads
Flyway Tips: Immediate Code Review for Developers
At the Redgate Summits this year, we’ve highlighted a few things in the Flyway solution that help developers improve their ability to get work done safely and quickly. While...
2026-07-22 (first published: 2026-07-13)
209 reads
The “best” tool
I had a question the other day that constantly pops up on my feed whether it’s on social media or people asking Q&A at a conference etc. And that...
2026-07-15 (first published: 2026-07-13)
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Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will...
2026-07-17 (first published: 2026-07-10)
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How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database deployments, you've probably already run into its limits. It's still very much in its infancy....
2026-07-20 (first published: 2026-07-10)
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A New Word: Attriage
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel about someone – not even trying to quench the flames anymore, but lighting other fires...
2026-07-10
24 reads
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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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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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