Book Review: Traffic Why We Drive the Way We Do
I finished up reading Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt last week and enjoyed it....
2009-07-10
376 reads
It's all in the details
I'm one of the judges for the Exceptional DBA contest, which ends July 10, 2009. You can still enter if...
2009-07-10
527 reads
Whitepapers – Good or Evil?
I was having a discussion with Brian Knight yesterday about whitepapers and thought I’d share some of it – from my...
2009-07-09
437 reads
HP Mini Netbook - An External Monitor
When I bought the HP Mini 1030R netbook, I had every intention of using it for presentations, taking it on...
2009-07-09
989 reads
Powershell Charting with MS Chart Controls
Richard MacDonald's demonstrates using Microsoft Chart Controls with Powershell in his post, Charting with Powershell. The chart controls are free and work with...
2009-07-09
3,474 reads
SSC Site Issues
It was kind of amazing to see SQLServerCentral have issues over the last few days. We’re still not sure what...
2009-07-08
476 reads
A Laptop is nice
It's almost 9, I've been working for over an hour, and only one foot has left the bed. It touched...
2009-07-08
457 reads
PASS Update #11 (Networking Seminar at the PASS Summit)
If you haven’t seen the news yet we’ve got something new on the schedule this year – a 2 hour seminar...
2009-07-08
570 reads
The Criminals are Always Ahead
A new scheme to get ATM PIN numbers using automated systems and VOIP is in play. It's described here and...
2009-07-08
287 reads
I Need a Logo
I've been doing the Voice of the DBA podcasts for over a year now, and I really enjoy them. I've...
2009-07-08
895 reads
Blogs
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...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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