SQL Bits – Europe’s largest SQL Conference
4th 7th March
ExCeL Centre in London, England
SQLBits have announced their dates for 2015.
I have been three times and...
2014-12-12
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Gethyn Ellis
Win a Free Copy of my Book - Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration
Readers of my blog would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are...
2014-06-12
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I’ve Written a Book…Getting Started with SQL Server 2014 Administration
That’s folks you heard it here first. Since the end of 2013 through to April this year I have been...
2014-05-14 (first published: 2014-05-07)
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SSMS Add-ons
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on...
2014-05-05 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Central Management Studio CMS
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-28 (first published: 2014-04-21)
1,978 reads
From where does SSMS get its database defaults?
We can create a database simply by typing in the command createdatabase DB1
We don’t have to provide any other...
2014-04-25 (first published: 2014-04-16)
2,373 reads
SSMS Queries on Function Keys
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-23
1,077 reads
SQL Server Training – Spring 2014
I have just returned from a trip to Washington DC where I was delivering course 2105 – SQL Server 2012 DBA...
2014-04-22
843 reads
SSMS Auto Recovery
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write...
2014-04-17
839 reads
Missing Database Owner
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-14
2,818 reads
Blogs
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Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
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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')
What is returned? See possible answers