SQL Server Consulting–New for 2013
Today is the first full work day for me in 2013 and I though I’d use it to write a...
2013-01-02
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Gethyn Ellis
December Top 4 Popular Posts
It is Monday today but its no ordinary Monday. Today is New Years Eve, its the end of December and...
2012-12-31
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Happy New Year
I’m not working too hard today, so this is just a short post to wish all my readers a very...
2012-12-31
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Closing the Results Window in SSMS
This is a guest post by David Postlethwaite.
I’ve been wondering how to do this for years. At SQL Bits and...
2012-12-28
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My RSS Reader…The Great Clean Up
If you blog and call yourself a blogger then you probably have a pretty full RSS reader. Mine has been...
2012-12-28
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SQL Server Cumulative Update
Microsoft today announced the latest round of SQL Server Cumulative Updates
SQL Server 2012 CU 5 – You can get more information...
2012-12-28
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Merry Christmas from gethynellis.com
This is a very short post on Christmas Eve to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas!
I’m going to...
2012-12-24
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SQL Server Training in 2013–SQL Server Virtualisation and Consolidation
As we approach a new year many of you will be looking at your SQL Server Training needs for 2013....
2012-12-19
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SQL Server Training in 2013–SQL Server 2012 New Features
As we approach the end of 2012 – The release year for SQL Server 2012 many of you as we approach...
2012-12-17
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SQL Server Training–New York New York!
For those that read my blog regularly you will know that I over the last couple of years I have...
2012-12-13
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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)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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