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2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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AWS RDS Restore To A Point In Time
The single most important part of backups are not backups. The single most important part of backups are restores. It doesn’t matter a lick if you have 100, flawless...
2022-08-29
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Daily Coping 29 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-29
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Thinking about data points and more …
(2022-Aug-28) Going on a family vacation road trip always fills me with a myriad of happy emotions and expectations to explore new places, see new people and essentially be led...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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Daily Coping 26 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-26
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Daily Coping 25 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-25
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Explicit and implicit datatype conversions
Did you know that 1/2=0? If you didn’t you could be in for some interesting surprises. 1/2 returns 0 because ... Continue reading
2022-08-25
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A simple lab to demonstrate the danger of NOLOCKs in INSERT statements
The READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level, which the NOLOCK table hint activates, is not to be trusted when it comes to writing data. You are not always protected by error...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-25)
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Daily Coping 24 Aug 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-08-24
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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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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