Query Active Directory Data from SQL Server using T-SQL
Learn how to use SQL Server Transact SQL with OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY commands to access and retrieve data from Active Directory.
2009-12-09
5,402 reads
Articles
Introduction to Common Table Expressions
Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
2009-12-08
15,233 reads
Best Practice for renaming a SQL Server Database
One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.
2009-12-08
6,195 reads
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 3)
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the obstacles to implementing electronic health data systems. Because of these...
2009-12-08
1,264 reads
Fun With SQL Azure
Pinal Dave had a helpful post a few days ago about how to setup and configure SQL Azure. You will...
2009-12-08
1,844 reads
Life Logging
Would you like the idea of capturing everything you do? Audio, video, text, code, a log of your life. A new book from Microsoft Research talks about this and Steve Jones things it could be an interesting capability for your career.
2009-12-08
3,356 reads
Life Logging
Would you like the idea of capturing everything you do? Audio, video, text, code, a log of your life. A new book from Microsoft Research talks about this and Steve Jones things it could be an interesting capability for your career.
2009-12-08
1,714 reads
Life Logging
Would you like the idea of capturing everything you do? Audio, video, text, code, a log of your life. A new book from Microsoft Research talks about this and Steve Jones things it could be an interesting capability for your career.
2009-12-08
702 reads
Enterprise SQL Job Activity Reporting
A SSIS/SSRS solution that provides SQL job activity for all your SQL Servers.
2009-12-07
7,243 reads
Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases
2009-12-07
2,186 reads
Blogs
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...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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