Microsoft Ignite Announcements Oct 2022
Announced at Microsoft Ignite were some new product features related to data platform and AI. Below are the ones I found most interesting: Azure Cosmos DB adds distributed PostgreSQL...
2022-10-18
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Memphis SQL Saturday 2022 & a Notebook
Back in person again! It is awesome to be able to get back into the SQL community and see fellow data professionals. A huge shout out to the Memphis...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-18)
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Daily Coping 18 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to share an important goal with someone you trust. I’m not sharing an important goal here. Honestly, some of the things that are important to...
2022-10-18
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Composite Models in PowerBI -- The solution to poor search performance in SSAS
With the release of composite models in PowerBI, Ive been able to solve a long-standing issue with SQL Server Analysis Services: text search performance. In this article I am...
2022-10-28 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-10-2020
Hello Dear Reader! We had a big week on Tales From The Field! We've got some great stuff planned for you this week, but before we get to the...
2022-10-17
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An Update to Skipping the Leading Digit in T-SQL–#SQLNewBlogger
There was an interesting question in a forum, which I wrote about before. How do you skip the leading digit in a numeric value. I had looked at a...
2022-10-18 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Monitor Cardinality Feedback in SQL Server 2022
It’s possible for you to see new technology at work if you use Extended Events to monitor cardinality feedback. To put it simply, cardinality, the number of rows being...
2022-10-26 (first published: 2022-10-17)
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Daily Coping 17 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make progress on a project or task you have been avoiding Most of the things I do for work are spent looking in the...
2022-10-17
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New Blog Space
I've decided to move my blog here. You'll see some old content being uploaded in the next few days. Look around, I hope you find some tidbits of information.
Older...
2022-10-17
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Pre-Conference Workshop and Sessions at PASS Summit
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at this year’s PASS Summit. PASS Data Community Summit 2022 is the year’s largest gathering of data platform professionals in...
2022-10-16
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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