Speaking Engagements for The Modern Resume
I’m giving my talk on The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand a few more times this year and I’ve got...
2009-05-25
992 reads
Memorial Day
Today in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day, the day we remember American casualties of any military action. Though...
2009-05-24
564 reads
Hyper-V – A New Machine
I installed Hyper-V onto a new machine as a role for the base Windows 2008 server role. It required a...
2009-05-22
1,031 reads
A Flood of Books
I'm on a few publishers' lists as someone that reviews books, works with SQL Server, and in general might help...
2009-05-22
759 reads
Book Review: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes ($14 at Amazon) was a book I picked up for travel,...
2009-05-21
680 reads
Denver SQL Server Users Group
I was late with family issues, and so I missed the social time when I was expecting to do a...
2009-05-21
618 reads
SQL Teach in Vancouver Coming Up Quick - Draught Presentation Ready (phew)
As Brad McGehee mentioned recently: SQLTeach (a part of the larger DevTeach event) will be held in Vancouver, BC this...
2009-05-21
1,063 reads
Workplace Discrimination in Quebec - part 2: Ignoring the Warning Signs
My Dearest Mister André Pratte,
Regarding your article in the Globe and Mail, I was quite surprised to see you run...
2009-05-21
1,601 reads
What is Twitter?
I saw an interesting blog post from Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) recently on what he thought Twitter was. I'd started my...
2009-05-21
1,912 reads
Starting Conversations - Part 5
I just finished up my third coaching call with Don Gabor (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) and...
2009-05-20
665 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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