Book Review: SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled
I'm just finishing up SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled by Grant Fritchey and Sajal Dam and overall I've...
2009-05-07
494 reads
Programming the Enterprise
Star Trek is coming back to theaters soon, and I’ve been watching Season 1 of Star Trek: TNG while running.
It...
2009-05-07
349 reads
Comparing Hardcoded functions, In-Line TVF's, and Scalar Functions
While perusing some of the threads on SQLServerCentral.com one of the questions that hit me was regarding the use of...
2009-05-07
3,350 reads
Xobni Add-In For Outlook
A few weeks back I wrote about trying out the LinkedIn Add-in and time has reinforced for me that it's...
2009-05-06
488 reads
Announcement for TechUpdate 2009 in Kosova
I just recieve the announcement for the Mircosoft event TechUpdate 2009, in Prishtina capital city of Kosova! The event will...
2009-05-06
466 reads
Kindle Update – Version 3?
I haven’t written about the Kindle lately, but I have noticed some news and I found it interesting.
First I saw...
2009-05-06
520 reads
Ooopsss Oracle Day in Kosova
Yep, yesterday in Prishtina, capital city of Kosova was held the event named, Oracle Day in Kosova! It was very...
2009-05-06
525 reads
Starting Conversations - Part 4
As I've mentioned in earlier posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) I've engaged speaking and networking Don Gabor to...
2009-05-05
410 reads
Cleaned Up
It was time.
I decided the other day that I needed to shave, and so the goatee came off. It's been...
2009-05-05
458 reads
Rant: Is It an Effective Control or Not?
This is spurred on by a comment a pen tester made. He was referring to a particular technology and said...
2009-05-05
1,252 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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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