Remember What It’s Like to Be a Rookie
File this under “soft skills.” Let me start with a recent experience.
Last week I was leading a team of youth...
2017-08-08 (first published: 2017-07-20)
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Brian Kelley
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Geek Sync on Wednesday: Taking Control of Your Organization’s SQL Server Sprawl
This Wednesday, July 26th, at 12 PM EDT, I’ll be giving a presentation through Idera’s Geek Sync series. You will...
2017-07-24
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Security Basics: The Principle of Least Privilege
Whenever I’m asked about creating a security model for an application or database, I tell folks to follow the Principle...
2017-07-17 (first published: 2017-06-30)
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The Three A’s: Auditing
Authentication and Authorization, the first two of the three A’s of security, control who gets access to what. However, at...
2017-07-13 (first published: 2017-06-28)
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The Three A’s: Authorization
Having covered authentication yesterday, let’s move on the second A, authorization. Authentication was about proving identity. Now that we know...
2017-07-10 (first published: 2017-06-27)
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The Three A’s: Authentication
When I start talking with folks about security, one of the areas of confusion I often find has to do...
2017-07-05 (first published: 2017-06-26)
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Recording of PASS Security VC Webinar
If you were unable to attend this month’s PASS Security Virtual Chapter webinar, The Dirty Business of Auditing, it has...
2017-06-29
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#SQLChat on Performance Issues
Twitter can often be a great source of information for the SQL Community, especially with the #SQLHelp hashtag. Another resource...
2017-06-23
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PASS Security VC Presentation – The Dirty Business of Auditing
On Thursday, June 22, at 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT, I’ll be presenting for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter.
Registration...
2017-06-19
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Speaking at Charleston PASS on May 18, 2017
During the day of the 18th I’ll be at the Syntax Code and Craft Conference in Charleston, SC. That evening...
2017-05-12
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers