Secure Cell Phones
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
2009-01-21
523 reads
Steve Jones
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Getting Information Where We Want It
I’ve been running every day, over 100 days in a row now, and one of the things that has helped...
2009-01-20
854 reads
Secure Cell Phones
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
2009-01-20
774 reads
Kindle Review – How I Read
In the last 4 months of having the Kindle, I’ve gone through a few different ways of reading on it...
2009-01-19
960 reads
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
2009-01-19
141 reads
Virtual Memory - Database Weekly (Jan 19, 2009)
Virtual memory is something we deal with in Windows systems, but Steve Jones talks about a different kind of virtual memory this week.
2009-01-19
310 reads
The Hassles of Travel - Part 2
I didn't want to go on this trip, but I agreed to do it. Now I regret it. My flight to Chicago was fairly uneventful, but it was running late. At 4:30CST the pilot says we should be on the ground in 30 minutes, which is good since I have to get to...
2009-01-19
198 reads
The Hassles of Travel - Part 2
I didn't want to go on this trip, but I agreed to do it. Now I regret it.
My flight to...
2009-01-18
778 reads
Managing Your IT Data
A new application manages data from your IT machines and software, but doesn't use a database. Steve Jones talks a little about this.
2009-01-17
69 reads
Virtual Memory - Database Weekly (Jan 19, 2009)
Virtual memory is something we deal with in Windows systems, but Steve Jones talks about a different kind of virtual memory this week.
2009-01-17
805 reads
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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