Speaker of the Month: November 2014
I have been very remiss in my blogging of late. Apologies.
One thing I haven’t blogged about is Speaker of...
2014-12-05
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol
For the first time ever at the PASS Summit, a competition was held to select a speaker for the 2015...
2014-11-13
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I’m Still Not on the Board
I’m just back from the PASS Summit 2014. What a great event. But this year, it was a little different....
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014: WIT Luncheon
Since I’m starting on the board in January, I’ve stopped taking part in the bloggers table during keynotes. First time...
2014-11-06
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Database Lifecycle Management
There are lots of people who talk about Application Lifecycle Management. But, the database is a major part of every...
2014-10-31 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Why Haven’t You Changed Everything?
The first in what I hope will be many regular reports on what I’m doing on the PASS board.
To answer...
2014-10-17
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Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server
I have a pre-con coming up at the PASS Summit. You can read about it here. I named it “Query...
2014-10-16
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Thank You: #passvotes
The results are in and it seems that I’ve been elected to a place on the PASS Board.
Thank you.
I will...
2014-10-15
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Navel Gazing
I love negative feedback. Well, not really. I love constructive feedback. I love the feedback that gives me things to...
2014-10-17 (first published: 2014-10-12)
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Speaker of the Month: October 2014
I saw a whole bunch of great sessions last month. I was all over the place from Las Vegas to...
2014-10-09
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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...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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