Be in the SQL Yearbook
I’ve been thinking about this for years, and I’m finally doing it. I’m making a SQL Yearbook, and I want you to be...
2018-09-06
270 reads
Jen McCown
T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?
So today, this happened: Now I suddenly want to know how many bananas tall I am… https://t.co/7geupBzXDj — MidnightDBA (@MidnightDBA) September...
2018-09-06
317 reads
Fix: When an Availability Group listener’s IP is stolen
When you can connect to the individual nodes of a SQL Server Availability Group (AG), but not the AG listener,...
2018-09-05
887 reads
Learn PowerShell in Oklahoma, August 24!
SQL Saturday Oklahoma City is coming up RIGHT SOON, on August 25. The day before SQL Saturday OKC - August 24...
2018-08-14
703 reads
Vote for a new SSMS feature: Pin files in SQL Server Management Studio
So, this just happened: That's a p good idea. I'll upvote it if you put it in User Voice. Or...
2018-08-03
412 reads
Minion Backup: Restore to another server
Minion Backup makes your SQL Server backups effortless, of course. And even better, it makes your restores effortless! Oh, yes….yes indeed. Today we’ll look...
2018-06-28
460 reads
The transaction log for database ‘MyDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’
Your transaction log is full. Both Microsoft, and about 100 articles and blogs have covered this topic, but let's take...
2018-06-14
367 reads
Generate RESTORE LOG statements
Today, we're going to take a specific, simple example of generating RESTORE LOG statements from a directory list of files,...
2018-06-06
812 reads
Tea with Kalen! An interview with Kalen Delaney (#DBAsAtMidnight)
We had an AMAZING talk with Kalen Delaney – wait, you do know who Kalen is, don’t you? Rightfully, @SQLQueen on Twitter. Over 30 years...
2018-05-16
353 reads
SQL Saturday Dallas half-day precon: “Beginning Programming with Powershell”
On May 18 we will be presenting a half-day of PowerShell learnin', right before SQL Saturday Dallas! Read up and...
2018-04-24
349 reads
Blogs
Using Claude Code as a Database SRE Agent with the Everpure Fusion MCP Server
Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
The Book of Redgate: Products
By Steve Jones
We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that...
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 7
By Zikato
A fugitive cyber-criminal, a wingsuit, and 24 million flight records. Somewhere between Doha and...
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The SQL Server 2016 Plan
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Implicit Conversions Cripple SQL Server
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() III
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count(-1)What is returned? See possible answers