Encrypting Connections to SQL Server
I manage databases for financial organisation. These databases have confidential data of our customers such as credit card numbers, security...
2012-07-16
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Basit's SQL Server Tips
Introducing Windows Server 2012 – Get the FREE eBook!
Introducing Windows Server 2012 - can be downloaded for free here.
This book provides the early, high-level information you need to begin preparing...
2012-07-14
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Retrieving password policy settings for SQL login accounts
Today, I wrote the following query for our internal audit report for SAS70. This query provides all the necessary details...
2012-07-10
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Purging MSDB Backup and Restore History Tables
Today while checking our database growth reports, I noticed that size of msdb database on most of our SQL Server...
2012-07-09
2,472 reads
Securing Database Contents with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server has many security features available within the database, but until release of SQL Server 2008 there has...
2012-07-08
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Find the size of Index in SQL Server
As we know, sp_spaceused gives the size of table and index but it gives the sum of size of all...
2012-07-06
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View SQL Server information using Transact-SQL script
Recently one of our clients requested information about their SQL Server infrastructure which we manage. In order to complete this...
2012-07-13 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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Useful new DMV’s in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and SQL Server 2012
Introduction
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SP1 and SQL Server 2012 has a new set of DMVs that includes sys.dm_server_memory_dumps,...
2012-07-03
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Determine space used for each table in a SQL Server database
I have written following Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL scirpt to quickly determine space used for each table in a SQL...
2012-07-01
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Rebuild indexes based on fragmentation – sp_RebuildIndex
In my previous post here, I’ve discussed how we can detect fragmentation in SQL Server databases indexes using dynamic management...
2012-06-30
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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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