Price increase for Azure in Canadian dollars
On 1 December 2018, Microsoft is increasing Azure subscription prices in Canadian dollars by 5%. The following is taken directly...
2018-11-28
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday 108 – Learning R
I am the proud host of TSQL Tuesday for the month of November 2018.
My call to post entries is here ....
2018-11-28 (first published: 2018-11-18)
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Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That means tracking when the log file grows and tracking...
2018-11-27
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Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That...
2018-11-27
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Brute Forcing SQL Logins and Passwords
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Following up on last week's post about the different types of SQL injection, this week I want to show how injection can be used...
2018-11-27
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Brute Forcing SQL Logins and Passwords
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.Following up on last week’s post about the different types of SQL injection, this week...
2018-11-27
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Brute Forcing SQL Logins and Passwords
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Following up on last week's post about the different types of SQL injection, this week I want to show how injection can be used...
2018-11-27
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Database Stuck in Suspect Mode
My holiday week did not started off very good. I come in and find a UAT environment database in suspect...
2018-11-27
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Midlands PASS Meetings for January and February 2019
Midlands PASS won’t be holding a meeting in December. Too much going on! However, we are hosting meetings in January...
2018-11-27
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Part 2: Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services
Recap!
Part 1 of Predictive Modeling using R and SQL Server Machine Learning Services covered an overview of Predictive Modeling and the...
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-11-18)
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers