Winding Down
I'm trying to finish up the last few things here at work before taking the weekend off. I scheduled off...
2009-09-30
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Pre-Compiled Stored Procedures: Fact or Myth
There’s a very common belief among DBA’s: Stored procedures are pre-compiled. I had someone tell me all about it just...
2009-09-30
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Minor Celebration
A little cheap thrill for me. I passed 50,000 views on the blog yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has stopped...
2009-09-30
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The old INNER JOIN syntax vs. the new INNER JOIN syntax
I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
2009-09-30
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Heading Down to the Basement
I'm taking the next two days off, heading down into the basement for a four day weekend. Nothing particular going...
2009-09-30
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Idea for PASS Summit 2010 – Share Your Other Passions
I’ve had the glimmer of this idea since I posted about the idea of bringing my chair to the 2009...
2009-09-30
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TechEd Online Interview
Back in August at TechEd Africa I did a TechEd Online interview with Frikkie Bosch. Frikkie’s the marketing manager for...
2009-09-30
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On vs. Where
Does it matter if you put your criteria in the ON clause or the WHERE clause? Well, as with most...
2009-09-30
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Eliminating Empty Output Files in SSIS
So you’ve got some packages that regularly extract data to one or more text files, but you know that from...
2009-09-30
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Jack Corbett Now Co-President of oPASS
I’m late announcing this here, but I’m pleased to announce my friend Jack Corbett is joining me in leading oPASS...
2009-09-29
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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...
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