SQLChat on Wednesday, Webinar on Thursday!
I’m participating in two community activities this week. One is a #SQLCchat on Twitter and the other is a webinar...
2016-09-06
367 reads
Brian Kelley
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I wrote a SQL Server auditing whitepaper!
I recently collaborated with Idera to produce a short whitepaper on the top 5 things to audit in SQL Server...
2016-07-27
1,034 reads
Not More Than 16 Characters?!?
Microsoft, you’re killing me. This is the warning I received when typing in a password for Office 365:
I blinked when...
2016-06-16 (first published: 2016-06-10)
4,084 reads
Protecting Against Delete without Where
If I’m doing any manual work with T-SQL, I always begin every set of data change operations with BEGIN TRAN...
2016-06-13 (first published: 2016-06-09)
3,637 reads
A Different Type of Currency
Recently, a member of the community lamented that folks weren’t willing to provide an email address for free training. This...
2016-06-09
448 reads
Sights that just scream, “No!”
I’m at a conference, specifically a security conference. So I looked at the available WiFi connections. Among the conference and hotel specific...
2016-06-07
454 reads
Slides from 2016 Techno Security & Mobile Forensics Conference
I’ve completed both of my presentations at the 2016 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference (#technosecurity). If you were able...
2016-06-07
523 reads
Congrats to MSSQLTips on 10 Years!
MSSQLTips has posted about their 10 years as a resource to the SQL Server community. It’s where I do the...
2016-06-06
558 reads
Stored Procedures and SQL Injection
Why do stored procedures help with security? In this piece, MVP Brian Kelley explains why SQL Injection and information gathering are hampered with stored procedures.
2015-06-12 (first published: 2013-02-18)
21,037 reads
On Software and OS Lifecycle Management
An Important Rule:
If you’re trying to convince someone to your viewpoint, insulting them generally doesn’t work. If it does anything,...
2015-04-30 (first published: 2015-04-17)
5,137 reads
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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