Can’t RDP to Azure VM?
I ran into an interesting problem early this month. I was spinning up an Azure VM with SQL Server 2016...
2016-04-18
562 reads
Gethyn Ellis
2016-04-15
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Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Happy Tuesday . Here's the latest technology based blogs and articles I have been reading this week. Mainly SQL Server themed...
2016-04-12
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SQL Server 2005 is Now Out of Support (12 April 2016)
SQL Server 2005 is now out of support. I remember going to a SQL Server 2005 launch event at the...
2016-04-11
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TSQL– Search for Strings in Object Definitions
I have been working nn an environment that had multiple copies of a database on the same SQL server instance....
2016-04-06
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Weekly Roundup–SQL Server and Related News
Welcome to this weeks weekly round up of links, SQL Server and other news. Its been a busy week on...
2016-04-05
408 reads
SQL Server 2016 Azure Virtual Machines
With the release candidates coming thick and fast for SQL Server 2016 downloading, uninstalling the previous version and installing the...
2016-03-30
1,398 reads
SQL Server News–29th March 2016
This past weekend is one of my favourite holiday weekends - the 4 day Easter weekend 🙂 Although I have had to...
2016-03-29
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SQLBITS 2016 Agenda has been Published
The agenda for this year’s SQLBITs has been published you can find it here http://sqlbits.com/information/event15/Agenda.aspx?20160507
Our very own David Postlethwaite has...
2016-03-24
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Weekly Round-up 21st March 2016
Here are some of the more interesting links that I have found this week
SQL Server
SQL Server 2016 RC1 has...
2016-03-21
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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)...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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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