Looking for Good (and Bad) SQL Server Blogs
I was asked to do an hour presentation during the 24 Hours of PASS, which takes place on Sept 2,...
2009-08-04
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Agile Practices Meet Database Development: Intro
I think the database developer role is on the rise and that it's better suited for agile practices - but guidance...
2009-08-04
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SQL Saturday - Top 5 Suggestions from the Attendees
After spending much of the last two days reading through over 200 SQL Saturday Event Evaluations I have come up...
2009-08-04
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Second SW Florida .Net Code Camp Announced for Oct 3, 2009
John Dunagan is the “Chief Organizer” of this event on October 3rd in Estero, FL, just south of Ft Myers....
2009-08-04
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SQL Bloggers, Make Yourself Known
Are you an active SQL Server blogger? Do you blog regularly about the greatest database technology available? If so, you...
2009-08-04
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Eval Results from SQLSaturday #7
John finally got things caught up and had time to finish the evals, here’s how I did on my presentation...
2009-08-03
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SQL Bloggers – Join The PASS Blogger Group on LinkedIn
We launched this last week, a dedicated sub group for sql bloggers. To be eligible to join you have to...
2009-08-03
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Technical Presenters – Make your point
I caught this blog post, Who says technical presentations can't be engaging?, today thanks to Dana Coffey (@crazeegeekchick on Twitter). ...
2009-08-03
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge – Recap
After a long weekend of travel and speaking, I’m finally able to put my feet up and get a little...
2009-08-03
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Pain of the Week Webcast
Thursday this week I get to hang out, virtually, with some of the heavy hitters of the industry, Brent Ozar,...
2009-08-03
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Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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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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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