Tabs Out of Control
I was working with a team of developers this week who were having the hardest time finding the keystroke to...
2009-11-03
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Table and Index Partitioning Demo
I get a lot of requests for explanations about the different concepts and the easiest way to demo partitioning in...
2009-11-03
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Smooth Compound Operators
Ok, so I can’t promise you’ll be smooth by the end of this entry, but I can promise you’ll be...
2009-11-03
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Kick xp_sendmail to the curb
With the advent of SQL Server 2005 and 2008, mail in the database engine has changed dramatically. Previously you had...
2009-11-03
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Week of Warehousing - Questions Answered
Greg emailed me a great question from my week of warehousing webinar the other day. We were discussing disk performance...
2009-11-03
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Check out Straight to 8 Program
We seem to be busting at the seams lately with quality content from great providers. I wanted to recommend to...
2009-11-03
225 reads
Week of Warehousing Review
How exciting was last week! Some of the top experts in the country all gathered together through support from SQLServerCentral.com,...
2009-11-03
204 reads
The Enduring DBA
We are all facing the challenges of this new economy. There are very few people and industries in the world...
2009-11-03
301 reads
PASS Summit 2009 - Ted Kummert
After Bob Muglia, Ted Kummert came on stage. He's the senior VP of the server tools division and works for...
2009-11-03
943 reads
Reference to PASS Session - T-LOG
Hey, just caught wind of some timely stuff going on at PASS. Had my trusty 'Google alert' email me, set...
2009-11-03
818 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