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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The Scary DBA
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
1,389 reads
Vote for Mr. LaRock
It is rapidly coming up on election time at the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS). Once more, a person...
2009-09-29
1,575 reads
Recap of Cape Cod .NET User’s Group
I presented last night at the Cape Cod .NET User’s Group. What a great bunch of people. About 20 people...
2009-09-24
724 reads
PASS Virtual Chapters
If you’re not a member of the Professional Association of SQL Server users, PASS, why not? No, I’m sorry. I...
2009-09-23
868 reads
Presentation Skills from Brent Ozar
If you present at any level, read this. If you’re thinking about presenting, read this. If you’d like to start...
2009-09-23
1,077 reads
Cape Cod .NET Users Group
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 23, I’m going to present on “Best Practices for Working with SQL Server Execution Plans” for the...
2009-09-22
841 reads
Gila Monster on Estimated vs. Actual Row Counts
I don’t generally do lots of blog aggregation and cross post linking & stuff. It’s just not something I’m that into....
2009-09-22
1,292 reads
Identifying Frequently Running Queries
It’s not enough to look at the longest running query. What if you have two queries, one runs for 5...
2009-09-21
975 reads
More Free Training
Quest Connect 2009, taking place in October 21 for 24 hours, looks like it’s going to have 64 different sessions, live...
2009-09-15
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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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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