Holidays and Parties, Gift, Expectations, and Wishes
Most companies do something at the holidays, although it seems to be less with each year, and certainly this holiday...
2009-12-17
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Reporting Services Licensing
Licensing models can sometimes make database modeling seem trivial. Per processor or per seat? Single core, dual-core, multi-core processors? Multiple...
2009-12-17
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How to Shrink TempDB in SQL 2005
Introduction
From time to time you find yourself needing to shrink some space out of TempDB. Shrinking database files is never...
2009-12-17
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How to Copy Query Results From SQL Server 2005/2008 into Excel
I often work with DBAs who need to copy the results of a T-SQL query from SQL Server Management Studio...
2009-12-17
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Where’d the Data Go?
The Reported Problem
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a former employer because an SSRS report I had written...
2009-12-17
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Difference between Delete and Truncate Command
Although the Delete and Truncate Commands logically does the same work of deleting the rows from the table but still...
2009-12-17
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Securing Log Shipping
There was a post recently where someone was asking about securing log shipping to comply with HIPAA requirements. It struck...
2009-12-17
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Using Google Docs for Note Taking
I've admittedly been a terrible note taker growing up. Throughout most of school, I've always been able to remember everything...
2009-12-17
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Machine SID Doesn’t Matter
Ran across this post from Mark Russinovich titled The Machine SID Duplication Myth that seems to debunk the idea that...
2009-12-16
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Remove Replication:
Its quite some time that I blog… but good news is I have some good stuff to blog on… so...
2009-12-16
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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...
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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