SQL Server & Containers – Part One
Containers are a hot topic at the moment, there seems to be a new article about them on Hacker News...
2016-11-16
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Monday Coffee 2016-11-14
Communication in the workplace.
With the release of Microsoft Teams we now have a dazzlingly array of software designed to increase...
2016-11-14
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Friday Reading 2016-11-11
It’s Friday so no releases to Production today (ha!) which means in-between my code reviews, server audits and other tasks...
2016-11-11
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Drag & Drop Table & Column Names in SSMS
I was working with a developer the other day and he was typing out each table name and all the...
2016-11-09
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Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio
Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-28)
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Changing connection colours in SQL Server Management Studio
A simple but effective setting in SQL Server Management Studio is using custom colours to identify which server you are...
2016-09-22
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE in SQL Server 2014
In SQL Server 2014 SP2 an interesting new DBCC command was included, DBCC CLONEDATABASE
This command creates a “clone” of a...
2016-08-22 (first published: 2016-08-17)
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SQL Server 2016 – Perform Volume Maintenance
One of the server settings that I always enable when configuring a new instance of SQL is database instant file...
2016-08-03
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Bug fixes in SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 CU1 has been released and one thing I noticed was: –
FIX: Canceling a backup task crashes SQL...
2016-07-27
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The new SQL Server Management Studio
Ok, so this is old news I know, but I’ve had a busy couple of months and am only getting...
2016-07-20
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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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BIT_COUNT() IV
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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