EightKB Topics
Hello all, I’ve been speaking to various people about EightKB and there does seem to be a misunderstanding out there about the topics of submissions that we are looking...
2023-04-05
30 reads
Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 03-27-2023 & MegaCON
Zach's 1st MegaCon 2011 Hello Dear Reader! This past week is a blur. It was a tough week at work. That sentence is an understatement, but its really all I...
2023-04-04
35 reads
Goal Progress for March 2023
The grade for March is also D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. In fact, I find myself not motivated to work...
2023-04-03
26 reads
How Does SELECT * Affect Query Store?
I live for questions and recently, I had someone ask me, does using SELECT * affect Query Store. My immediate gut reaction was, hell no. Of course it doesn’t....
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-03)
417 reads
Data Ceili 2023 – Schedule and Registration
Today we have announced the schedule for Data Céilí 2023 and have opened registration! We have two days of great sessions for you, the 8th of June will have...
2023-04-03
33 reads
Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode
While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model, and to compliment it I also have monitoring in place if transaction log doesn't get...
2023-04-17 (first published: 2023-03-31)
876 reads
Autonomous Driving Around London
There’s a video of Bill Gates taking a drive in an autonomous car around London. I’ve been to London dozens of times, ridden and cabs and Ubers, and even...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-31)
249 reads
Best way to monitor high worker thread on SQL Server
It is common to see high worker count issue on the production server and it can have a range of negative impacts on SQL Server performance and stability, potentially...
2023-04-17 (first published: 2023-03-31)
1,120 reads
New Job -> Week 3 -> Creating Alerts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 3: setup much needed alerts on DTU...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-30)
187 reads
Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
569 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