SQL Saturday in Orlando
The dates for Microsoft's TechEd 2008 are fast approaching here in North America. Sandwiched between the two weeks of this year's...
2008-05-23
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Databases – Infrastructure – Security
Review of How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005
SQL Server MVP Frank Kalis has posted a short review on How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005, a...
2008-05-20
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Technical Podcasts I Listen To
There are a few podcasts I tend to listen to as I have time. Since I work with a wide...
2008-05-19
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Giving a Presentation?
As a president of a local PASS chapter, one of the things I've struggled with is getting "locals" to give...
2008-05-17
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Setting Static Ports when dealing with Named Instances and Kerberos
I ran across this a week or so ago. There were a couple of SQL Servers running named instances that...
2008-05-17
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Give Back: Donate Your Hair for Children in Need
While this will remain a primarily technical blog, one thing I'm going to try and add is each Saturday I'll...
2008-05-16
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Command and Control of the Data Center
As I went walking last night, I listened to two podcasts from RunAs Radio of interviews of Michael Manos and...
2008-05-16
1,089 reads
Midlands PASS May Meeting - Speaker Brian Knight
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Speaker: SQL Server MVP Brian Knight
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a special meeting on...
2008-05-15
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Thoughts on SQL Saturday in Jacksonville
I was able this Saturday to head down to Jacksonville and speak at the SQL Saturday there. There were a...
2008-05-07
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Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate
The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...
2008-05-02
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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
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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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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