What’s Wrong with this Picture: A Database Misconfiguration Well Demonstrated
Recently, I was doing some testing/playing around on a particular database on my home test servers. After I was done,...
2012-01-06
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Blog Posts
LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types
Today I’ll talk about the available JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences,...
2012-01-05
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Management Studio Split Tabs
This is by far the simplest and silliest post ever, but i just figured how to create vertical tabs in...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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Msg 7395: Unable to start a nested transaction
Happy new year, SQL peeps! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Last week was very quiet at work, but...
2012-01-05
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PASS Summit Eval – Extended Events
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had two sessions at the PASS Summit this past year in which I...
2012-01-05
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Safely Restart SQL Agent with Powershell
I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Disable Indexes and Rebuild Indexes dynamically
To generate the ALTER INDEX..DISABLE and the ALTER INDEX..REBUILD statements for all nonclustered indexes for a single table use the...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server Login Auditing
In recent months I have been asked to ensure we are auditing both successful and failed logins, not just failed...
2012-01-05 (first published: 2012-01-03)
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The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
You may fire up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (which allows you to run PowerShell commands to do cool SharePoint...
2012-01-05
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Daemon
At the recommendation of Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter), I got the book Daemon. Well, I actually got that about a year ago as a gift – but it...
2012-01-04
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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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