Does File Exist Check in SSIS
A very common need in SSIS is to check to see if a file exist before you run what could be...
2009-08-11
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Review: Motorola H710 Headset
Last week I posted about getting a new bluetooth speakerphone, so I thought I’d follow up with some notes about...
2009-08-11
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Data Theft
Is employee data theft on the rise? I saw this blog post on the subject, but I had to take...
2009-08-11
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Journey to trouble-shoot Error 5042 (cannot remove a file xxx because it is not empty)
I was working on a table partition management task yesterday. The table is partitioned on a datetime column, and each...
2009-08-10
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Interview on SQLAuthority.com
Well-known Indian SQL MVP Pinal Dave has posted a short interview he did with me recently. Pinal is the founder...
2009-08-10
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Why Use Named Pipes?
The other day a colleague and I were shadowing a vendor who was installing their 3rd party application on a...
2009-08-10
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Notes on SQLSaturday #16
I went down to Miramar Fri morning, taking the loooong drive from Sarasota across Alligator Alley on I-75. Miles of...
2009-08-10
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Adding Multiple Columns to a Table With a Single T-SQL Statement
You know, I believe the old saying, “If you don’t use it you will lose it”. Well, I write a...
2009-08-10
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24 Hours of PASS
Rick Heiges has put together an interesting event coming up on Sep 2, 2009 called 24 Hours of PASS. As...
2009-08-10
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Networking for Your Career
It's hard to actually put a specific value on networking, and I've been skeptical of it in the past. However...
2009-08-10
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
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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