Football Update
Well the World Cup is now half way through, 32 games played, 32 games to go. The talk here in...
2010-06-21
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Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server MasterClass
This Thursday gone, (June 18th) I went to a hotel near Heathrow airport in London for what was titled a...
2010-06-21
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Finding Duplicates
This is just a short post that uses a contrived example to demonstrate how to find duplicate records in a...
2010-06-18
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The Football World Cup
This day only comes around once in every four years, we've all been waiting for it for months. It's been...
2010-06-11
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SSMS 2008 and changing a SQL 2005 SA password.
You can probably tell from some of my more recent posts that I have been doing some work lately on...
2010-06-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #007 - Policy Based Management
It's that time of the month again, time for the next round of T-SQL Tuesday posts. This month is being...
2010-06-08
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Cannot Connect to SQL Server
I recently installed a new SQL Server 2008 instance on a brand new Windows 2008 R2. When I tried to...
2010-06-07
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SQL Server 2008 Installation Fails to Start
Recently I have been installing a new SQL Server 2008 instance on Vmware vSphere based virtual server, the OS was...
2010-06-04
1,210 reads
Weekly Update - Internet Issues
I haven’t written anything technical or SQL Server related for that matter on my blog for a few of weeks....
2010-06-03
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2010-06-02
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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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