Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
I’ve finished my 3rd book as part of my year long commitment to read and review professional/personal development books. I...
2011-08-30
768 reads
The Scary DBA
Expert? Ha!
How do you define an expert? My personal definition: An expert is the person that is a chapter ahead of...
2011-08-22
1,245 reads
Google + Hangouts
I just finished hosting my third hangout on Google Plus. I’ve also attended one hosted by Andy Leonard (blog|twitter) and...
2011-08-11
1,383 reads
Denali & CTP 3
I have Denali installed on a virtual machine on my laptop and I’m working through evaluating it. Actually, I’m working...
2011-08-10
666 reads
Droid Apps
A friend of mine recently got his first smart phone, an Android. My wife has also recently moved into the...
2011-08-08
770 reads
All About Execution Plans
If you’re attending the PASS Summit this October, I’d like to make a suggestion. The Summit itself is only three...
2011-08-03
864 reads
Strengths Finder 2.0
I’ve made the commitment to read and review 12 books over 12 months as a part of continuous personal development....
2011-07-27
898 reads
PASS SQL Rally 2011 Evaluations
In keeping with the all my other major speaking engagements, I’m posting the results of my pre-con and session evals...
2011-07-05
938 reads
Presentations in Action
The first book I read for my 12 goal oriented books was Jerry Weissman’s Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation...
2011-06-27
644 reads
Make the Optimizer Work Harder
One of my favorite indicators for whether or not you have a good execution plan is when you see the...
2011-06-20
2,799 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...
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