SQLBits Friday and Saturday
By David Postlethwaite
The last two days of SQL Bits provide opportunities to hear short 50 minutes presentations from experts
on a...
2011-10-06
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Bits Training Day
By David Postlethwaite
Just spent a day with Allen White, a SQL MVP from Ohio, USA learning about automating and managing...
2011-09-29
1,589 reads
David’s SQLBITS Day 1–The Travel Day
Just had a pleasurable 5 hours watching the Autumn countryside go by on a glorious sunny day (in fact its...
2011-09-28
723 reads
Sharon Dooley’s Lightening Talk and the WIT Luncheon
At the end of last week I received an email from my friend and colleague Sharon Dooley telling me her...
2011-08-31
2,520 reads
Using PowerShell to Monitor SQL Server
By Ian Treasure
Over the past few years, I have used a number of approaches to monitor SQL Server. For example,...
2011-08-30
7,293 reads
VMFS LUN resizing options in vSphere
Introduction
First off, many thanks to Gethyn for the opportunity to post on his excellent blog.
I’m Christian Dadswell and I...
2011-08-24
1,841 reads
Get your AD information with .NET
.NET has a useful class called system.DirectoryServices to query LDAP such as Active Directory
Here is some example code to retrieve...
2011-08-22
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Another New Contributor–Christian Dadswell
This is just a short post to introduce you all to my good friend Christian Dadswell who has kindly agreed...
2011-08-17
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Auditing SQL Logins Addendum
One thing that has come out of auditing successful logins is the number of applications called ".Net SqlClient Data Provider"....
2011-08-16
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Auditing SQL Logins Part II
Written by David Postlethwaite
In a previous blog I talked about how to audit successful logins. So what about failed logins?
As...
2011-08-15
1,474 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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