Daily Coping 29 Mar 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...
2022-03-29
25 reads
Book Review – Azure Data Factory by Example
I just finished the book Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers by Richard Swinbank. The book was not exactly what I was expecting, but that’s...
2022-03-29
60 reads
Azure AD Automatic Provisioning for Snowflake
Azure AD application provisioning refers to automatically creating user identities, groups and roles in the applications that users need access to for accounts created in(more...)
The post Azure AD Automatic...
2022-03-29
120 reads
Quick Tip: Remove CONVERTCAST from your WHEREJOIN clauses
Quick Tip Remove CONVERT/CAST from your WHERE clauses and JOINS when comparing to variables of different data types. Set their data types to match your table definitions before using...
2022-04-08 (first published: 2022-03-28)
811 reads
Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB,...
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-28)
224 reads
Daily Coping 28 Mar 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...
2022-03-28
12 reads
Parsing JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON
Recently I had a piece of JSON of which I needed to extract data from to put into a table in Azure SQL DB. Unfortunately, the structure of the...
2022-03-28
92 reads
Daily Coping 25 Mar 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...
2022-03-25
23 reads
Power Automate – Returning the Last Day of the Month
Have you ever needed to set a property or field to the last day of the month? This is a common business problem that can
2022-04-01 (first published: 2022-03-25)
409 reads
Daily Coping 24 Mar 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...
2022-03-24
18 reads
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