Daemon
At the recommendation of Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter), I got the book Daemon. Well, I actually got that about a...
2012-01-04
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Blog Posts
Difference between ETL and ELT
ETL is the most common method used when transferring data from a source system to a data warehouse. But there...
2012-01-04
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Have You Planned Which SQL Server Events You Will be Attending in 2012?
2012 is already upon us and I have been busy working on my travel schedule for this year. It is...
2012-01-04
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Increase SQL Server Error Log Files
Recently I learned that you can and probably should increase the number of SQL Server Error logs that your instance...
2012-01-04 (first published: 2011-12-30)
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January Question: What feature(s) of SQL Server would you like to learn more about?
Although SQL Server 2012 coming out this year, I think some of us are still trying to catch up with...
2012-01-04
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New TPC-E Benchmark for HP DL385 G7
Somewhat unnoticed during the holiday season, HP has submitted a new TPC-E benchmark for the DL385 G7 two socket database...
2012-01-04
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PASS Summit Evals – Plan Cache Querying
This past year, I spoke at the PASS Summit for the second time. The first time was a couple years...
2012-01-04
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Presenting at OPASS on January 10, 2012
I’m stepping out of blogging-break mode for a few minutes to share that I’ll be presenting Building Your Professional Development...
2012-01-04
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SharePoint 2010 Your Backup Is From A Different Version Of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
Restoring a SharePoint site collection can be a pretty easy task. If your interested in how to do that check...
2012-01-04
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Speaking at Charleston PASS on January 19th
I will be presenting on SQL Server security on January 19th in Charleston, SC. You can find the details at...
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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