SQLSaturday #21 – Orlando What We Can Do Better
Well, the event is over and the Event Evaluations have been tabulated. I’ve already posted my week leading up to...
2009-10-22
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PASS Update #17
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while, but have been waiting for the board elections to close. Lots...
2009-10-22
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Opinions about PASS
There has been quite a discussion today on the direction of PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server) and some...
2009-10-22
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PASS Board of Directors Election
Anyone who has an Internet connection has kept up with PASS-related news during the past couple of weeks is keenly...
2009-10-22
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Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
2009-10-22
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Habits and Activities for De-Stressing
I was chatting on FaceBook today with a guy from my church who is learning to be a network engineer. He's...
2009-10-22
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Notes from SQLSaturday – Part 2
Picking up from yesterday, once we got through the confusion of the room changes everything settled down. I checked the...
2009-10-21
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Characters
No, I’m not talking about a Dickens novel. I’m talking about the number of characters in a string. I had...
2009-10-21
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PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
Mike Walsh, who is a PASS volunteer, has done a nice job organizing the PASS Summit Birds of a Feather...
2009-10-21
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Yes, I am a square, but not the way my wife thinks.
I’ll be on the Twitter Bingo card along with a lot of other great SQL Server folks at Pass! Quest...
2009-10-21
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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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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