Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server v3
By David Postlethwaite
I’m speaking about Kerberos for the SQL DBA at SQL Saturdays in Oslo, Gothenburg and Utrecht in September...
2015-08-05
2,260 reads
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Creating an Azure SQL Database
By David Postlethwaite
Once you have logged in to the Azure Management Portal you can start to create an Azure SQL...
2015-05-28 (first published: 2015-05-21)
5,803 reads
Microsoft Azure SQL Databases – Power and Performance
By David Postlethwaite
On the Database Scale page we can decide on the performance level that we want our database to...
2015-05-28
1,035 reads
Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Dashboard
By David Postlethwaite
Once you have created your database you can now start to manage and configure it.
There are six...
2015-05-26
859 reads
Getting Started with Microsoft Azure
By David Postlethwaite
The URL for Microsoft Azure is http://azure.microsoft.com.
Make sure you have an up to date browser because parts of...
2015-05-19
555 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds - Microsoft Azure
By David Postlethwaite
Microsoft Azure
Let’s take a look at the Microsoft Cloud offering. Originally called Windows Azure it was renamed in...
2015-05-14
673 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 3 – Cloud Service Offerings
By David Postlethwaite
Cloud Service Models
There are three main service models in the cloud. You will see these buzz words being...
2015-05-12
656 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 2 –Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Solutions
By David Postlethwaite
If you are thinking about using Cloud Computing then it’s worth considering the pros and cons.
Advantages of...
2015-05-07
563 reads
Putting Your Head in the Clouds 1 – An introduction to Cloud Computing
By David Postlethwaite
Although the concept of Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure have been around for a number of years it...
2015-05-06
734 reads
SQL Server 2016 Preview...Coming this Summer
It was announced yesterday at the Ignite conference that we’ll be getting a summer preview of SQL Server 2016. With...
2015-05-05
678 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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