Helping Database Administrators
Let’s be honest. Database administration is not all that tough. Set up your backups. Test them. Get consistency checks on...
2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
1,767 reads
The Scary DBA
Using PowerShell to move files to Azure Storage
I was searching all over the place to try to find out how to move files into Azure Storage. Most...
2013-06-03
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Microsoft Teched 2013 Keynote
Welcome to Teched 2013
We’re starting off with some type of James Bond video. Chase scene with a really cool car....
2013-06-03
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Painting the US Red
We are bringing Red Gate, through the free SQL in the City event, to the United States again this year.
This...
2013-05-29
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SMO vs Invoke-Sqlcmd in Azure
I’m working on a series of Powershell scripts for the pre-conference seminars on Windows Azure SQL Database that I’m going to be...
2013-05-28
1,070 reads
A Little Azure Fun on Friday
You know how we’ve always heard that sp_msforeachtable and other similar undocumented functions may not be supported in future versions...
2013-05-24
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PASS Summit 2013 is Looking Cloudy
No, this isn’t some complaint about PASS or the Summit. This is an announcement that not only will I be...
2013-05-22
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Microsoft Lync Through the Web
Get an invite to a Microsoft meeting? Are they using the new Lync interface? And, you don’t have a paid...
2013-05-21
784 reads
Azure does Powershell too
Or, I guess it might be more appropriate to say that Powershell does Azure. Regardless, there are a set of...
2013-05-23 (first published: 2013-05-20)
1,937 reads
Book Review: Business in the Trenches
I’m trying to improve.
That’s at just about everything too. I know I don’t know enough or have enough skills to...
2013-05-09
736 reads
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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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