Speaking at Data Saturday Rheinland – Migrating SSIS to ADF
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be talking about how you can migrate your SSIS skills to Azure Data Factory at Data Saturday Rheinland. At the time of writing...
2023-02-24
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Architecting MS SQL Server on VMware vSphere 8.0 released
I’m thrilled to announce that the “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I’m pleased to have been able to contribute to...
2023-02-23
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Daily Coping 23 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to give sincere compliments today to people. A tough day recently coaching, but I kept this in mind. Complementing parents, competitors and fellow coaches, and...
2023-02-23
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A Test Client for Zero Downtime Deployments
I’ll be at VS Live in Las Vegas this March to discuss zero downtime deployments. If you want to come and join me for this session, or any of...
2023-03-03 (first published: 2023-02-22)
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Daily Coping 22 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to share something you find inspiring, helpful, or amusing. Maybe not inspiring to you, but it was for me. We recorded a number of customers...
2023-02-22
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Daily Coping 21 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to respond kindly to everyone you talk to today. This is often easy for me. I did this last week while traveling. I got coffee...
2023-02-21
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What Happens On AWS RDS?
I was talking with some developers from my team about monitoring, and I said, “We all use the same tools,” referring to other monitoring software. Then, it hit me....
2023-02-21
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 4 - Analytical Processing
(2023-Feb-20) The previous posts covered the following areas of Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory:Part 1 - Data CopyPart 2 - Feed ConfigurationPart 3 - Column MetadataThese 3 areas suggested that it is...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 02-13-2023
Josh & myself at Antman & the Wasp Quantumania Hello Dear Reader! It's the Presidents Day holiday today in America. With it comes a 3 day weekend. To celebrate Josh...
2023-03-03 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Daily Coping 20 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate the good qualities of someone in your life. We have a person in Redgate that does a lot of work to support our...
2023-02-20
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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