SQL In The City: London 2012, Recap
Wow!
How’s that for a recap?
The concept for the SQL in the City events is pretty simple. Put on a free...
2012-07-17 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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The Scary DBA
Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified
One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...
2012-07-02
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The New Phone Book Is Here!
I can’t help it. I get really terribly excited when I publish a book. Maybe it should be old hat....
2012-06-27
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Problems with my new book
First off, I apologize. As if writing a book wasn’t hard enough, now we get new problems because of on-demand...
2012-06-26
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Does Encryption Affect Seeing Statements in Deadlock Graphs?
Good question. I don’t have a clue. So let’s set up a test. I’ll create this stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE DL2e
...
2012-07-03 (first published: 2012-06-25)
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PASS Summit 2012
I sure hope you’re planning on attending the PASS Summit this year. If you’re not, you might want to reconsider....
2012-06-19
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PASS Nomination Committee
For some reason, which isn’t completely clear to me, we’re voting for part of the members of the Nomination Committee...
2012-06-13
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Guest Blog
I was given the opportunity to put together a guest blog post for the MVP blog. I did a little...
2012-06-05
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How to Drop One Plan from Cache
While presenting this weekend at SQL Saturday #117 in Columbus, OH (great event, if you missed it, you missed it),...
2012-06-07 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes
This whole concept of the clustered index as a foundational structure within SQL Server is just plain nuts. Sure, I...
2012-05-31
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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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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