Database Fundamentals #1: Install SQL Server
To get started with SQL Server, you need to install it. However, I’m not going to teach you how to...
2017-06-05
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The Scary DBA
Database Fundamentals
One of my favorite things about being a technologist is constantly learning new things, but, this can lead us to...
2017-06-15 (first published: 2017-05-31)
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Technology Gender Gap By State
This is my first ever guest blog post. Take it away Hazel Garcia.
Though the gender gap narrows by the year,...
2017-06-02 (first published: 2017-05-22)
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MySQL and Backups As A Service
With today’s announcement that MySQL is available as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering through Azure, a lot more...
2017-05-10
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General Notes on Security in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
I’m still learning about Azure SQL Data Warehouse (ADW, cause I’m lazy). ADW is a deceptively deep topic. Initially you...
2017-05-22 (first published: 2017-05-08)
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Redgate Alexa Contest Winners!
A couple of weeks ago we had a small contest here to pick a skill for Alexa. The entries were...
2017-05-05
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Food On Your Table
I was asked, “Who here thinks that PASS helps people put food on the table?” To my shame, I initially...
2017-04-25
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Query Hash Values, Plan Guides and the Query Store
I was eating dinner with Hugo Kornelis and we started talking about query hash values. You know, like everyone does...
2017-05-08 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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The Age of Data and Software Development
I am so excited to be a data professional in the modern era. Yeah, 15-20 years ago, it was cool...
2017-04-17
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Alerts From Azure Automation
In a previous post, I showed how to set up statistics maintenance for your Azure databases using Azure Automation. However,...
2017-04-04
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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
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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