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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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