Continuous Integration/Delivery without Testing!
Anything we can do to automate our builds and deployment should be considered. After all, the point isn’t just to...
2014-08-28 (first published: 2014-08-25)
7,616 reads
Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Still a Need for a SQL Server Specific Organization
If you haven’t already, please read Denise McInerney’s post about why PASS no longer stands for the Professional Association for...
2014-08-20
660 reads
Guest Post on SQL Authority – Default Trace & Deleted Databases
I had the opportunity to write another guest post at SQL Authority:
Finding Out What Changed in a Deleted Database
This one...
2014-08-14
1,357 reads
One of Those Must Read Books – The Cuckoo’s Egg
I was reading a book about network security monitoring and it mentioned The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll. Stoll’s book has been...
2014-08-13
519 reads
Guest Editorial Live on SSC
My guest editorial is live on SQLServerCentral.com. My argument is a simple one: we don’t care about data and IT...
2014-08-11
492 reads
Speaking on ETL Security
I will be giving a presentation on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) security at two user groups in the coming weeks.
Securing...
2014-07-25
876 reads
Midlands PASS July Meeting – July 10
The Midlands PASS Chapter will hold its next meeting on July 10. We meet at MicroStaff IT in Cayce, SC....
2014-07-03
464 reads
PASS Summit Session Selection
Let’s make it democratic. Let’s ensure we get solid sessions from key people. And let’s save a ton of work...
2014-06-27
1,281 reads
What is an “operational” DBA?
On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....
2014-06-27
5,287 reads
“A good DBA is a lazy DBA”
I’m borrowing from Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) who says all the time, “Good engineers are lazy.”
If you’re thinking, “Why would I want (to...
2014-06-25
1,958 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers