SQL University–Recommendations for a Clustered Index
Welcome, SQL University Students to another extension class here at Miskatonic University, home to the Fighting Cephalopods (GO PODS!). Never...
2011-04-04
1,234 reads
The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday #67 Wrap-up
Just… Wow. What an event. What a great group of people. I’m just so lucky to be involved with fantastic...
2011-03-28
923 reads
Communication
It sure seems like there’s a lot of miscommunication between developers and database specialists. In fact, the communication can become...
2011-03-21
2,614 reads
Where does slow performance come from?
I have my opinions and experience, and I’ve no doubt you have yours. Paul Randal (blog|twitter) has put up another...
2011-03-17
745 reads
ANSI Connection Settings
It’s reasonably well known that you can get different execution plans if you change the ANSI connection settings. But the...
2011-03-14
1,716 reads
Execution Plan Stability
I’ve talked before about one of the primary things that the Query Optimizer team at Microsoft tries to avoid, regressions....
2011-03-07
787 reads
What Should PASS Be?
Andy Warren posted a question the other day (well, issued a challenge actually), “What Should PASS Be?” I’ll let you...
2011-02-22
713 reads
SQL Rally
I believe I’ve been far too quiet about this event.
In May, in Orlando Florida, there will be a two...
2011-02-17
651 reads
UN-SQL Friday #003–Vendor Love
The love that dare not speak it’s name… Yes, love for vendors. <shudder> Oh, I mean I love my new...
2011-02-15
594 reads
SQL Saturday #60, Cleveland Speaker Evals
I just received 35 speaker evaluations from SQL Saturday #60 in Cleveland. It was a great event (although I had...
2011-02-15
1,017 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