Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship and Your Help
Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship…And Your Help.
My good friend Justin Hostettler Davies (Blog@DBExpertise) pinged me a mail in...
2011-04-11
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Gethyn Ellis
Microsoft Migration Assistant v5.0 Released
As I was surfing around twitter after the marathon TV event that was the Royal Wedding came to end last...
2011-04-06
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Blog Syndication
I got sent an email recently asking how I went about syndicating my blog on some of the popular SQL...
2011-03-21
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Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
2011-03-18
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Becoming a DBA: How to gain experience
Last week I had an interesting telephone call from a someone who I connected with on linkedin.com. On Linkedin I’m...
2011-03-16
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Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
2011-03-14
2,792 reads
The Joy of Contracting
As you may or may not know I have been contracting since 2007, almost 4 years now and I have...
2011-02-21
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February Update
I haven't written anything for a while and again, for the second month running I missed TSQL2usday. It's a shame...
2011-02-15
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Shameless Plug: My First SSC Article Published Today
Please forgive the shameless plug. My first article was published today on sqlservercentral.com. It’s titled “Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance...
2011-01-26
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Ebooks: Deal of the Day
Apress, as I expect you know, publish some really good SQL Server books. Some of which are on the MCM...
2011-01-24
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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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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers