PASS Summit 2013: Women In Technology Luncheon
This year I was invited to attend the Women In Technology luncheon as a blogger. So I’ll be live-blogging it...
2013-10-17
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2013 Day 2 Key Note
KILT DAY!
Today we have to eat our vegetables and then get lots and lots of sweet desert.
Or.
Today we hear about...
2013-10-17
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PASS Summit 2013 Day 1 Keynote
I am liveblogging the keynote from the bloggers table at the PASS Summit again this year. Just keep scrolling.
Watching the...
2013-10-16
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Monitoring Structure Changes
Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...
2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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Do Be a Gatekeeper
I read this fascinating blog post called “Don’t Be a Gatekeeper” by Julie Zhuo. Please read that first.
It really resonated...
2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-09)
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Azure Account and Spending Limits
If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...
2013-10-08
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Speaker of the Month, October 2013
This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...
2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)
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An Experiment Concludes
That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...
2013-09-30
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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand
We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...
2013-09-27
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PASS Votes
I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...
2013-09-26
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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