SQL Server Management Studio in a Multi-Site Cluster
Originally posted on Clustering For Mere Mortals:
If you set up a multisite cluster (nodes in different subnets), you will...
2015-07-22
761 reads
Coffee and SQL
Continuing Series: System Center for the SQL Server DBA (SCOM Data Warehouse)
Originally posted on Blog Home for MSSQLDUDE:
Not really a new part to my multi-part series on System Center for...
2015-06-11
522 reads
System Center for the SQL Server DBA Part I: SCOM
Originally posted on Blog Home for MSSQLDUDE:
I’ll start part 1 of the Microsoft System Center series, focused on what...
2015-03-30
991 reads
System Center for the SQL Server DBA, cont’d SCOM Pack for SQL
Originally posted on Blog Home for MSSQLDUDE:
My original posting on System Center Operations Manager for SQL Server DBAs start...
2015-03-30
630 reads
2014-12-07
1,055 reads
Giving away FREE Access to my SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery Deep Dive Course – Round 2
Originally posted on - Microsoft technologies and what I do for fun -:
Last year, as part of launching my very first...
2014-11-29
1,144 reads
SQL Server proxy account and local policy
Originally posted on Peter's blog:
If a user is a member of Sysadmin server role of SQL Server 2005, the...
2014-10-11
1,288 reads
Taking control of the ‘sa’ account for SQL Server 2012
As a DBA, it is perfectly normal to forget your password from time to time. No need to hold your breath...
2014-09-25
541 reads
A quicker way to know when DBCC CHECKDB last ran in your database.
Problem : Surely you have scheduled jobs to run DBCC CHECKDB across your SQL Servers to check database integrity. But sometimes...
2014-06-01
944 reads
Setting Up Your Custom Data Collector Set
Problem: From my previous post, we learned how to set up Data Collection in SQL Server. This is most suitable...
2014-05-21
599 reads
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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