Putting a Database into Single User Mode
I was recently discussing with a group of budding DBA’s how you go about performing a restore of database. They...
2011-08-08
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Gethyn Ellis
Audit SQL Logins
Written by David Postlethwaite There are several ways that you can audit who has logged in to your SQL Server. The...
2011-08-05
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Updating Views
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn recently posted on deleting from a view. He used a common situation where several tables are...
2011-08-03
10,144 reads
We Have Another New Contributor…
I’d like to introduce you all to my friend Ian Treasure who has kindly volunteered to write some posts and...
2011-08-01
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Calling SCOM in C#
Written by David Postlethwaite
I’m sure there are many out there using System Centre Operations Manager (or SCOM for short)...
2011-07-29
3,964 reads
Searching for Wild Card Characters
I got asked an interesting question recently, I was demonstrating how you can use wild cards in a WHERE clauses...
2011-07-27
775 reads
IT Professionals, the Job Search and the Killer CV
It has been while since I wrote anything on my contracting blog but over the past month or so I...
2011-07-25
1,211 reads
SSRS: Dynamic Data Sources
I have been building dashboard using Reporting Services (SSRS) for a client of mine. The dashboard is going to be...
2011-07-22
7,964 reads
DOS Batch File Date and Time
Written by David POstlethwaite
A non SQL blog for a change
Ever needed to create a batch file that wrote a time...
2011-07-20
1,381 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by David Postlethwaite
Security of the SQL database is becoming more and more important these days yet I’m finding that...
2011-07-18
14,285 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')
What is returned? See possible answers