June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled
We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in...
2007-06-07
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Katmai Manageability
The database manages itself. Not totally, but close to it. It was an
analogy made by Dan Jones with cars. Auto...
2007-06-06
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SQL Server 2005 Security
It's a similar theme, off by default if it makes sense, minimize surface area.
Recommendations: for new installs, leave stuff off...
2007-06-06
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Southern BBQ
Last night I went out with Tony Davis of Simple Talk and Alan White, a
longtime author for both here and...
2007-06-06
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DBCC Internals
CHECKDB
- needs consistent view of the db. Needs to do this without locking. In
SQL Server 2000 log analysis is used....
2007-06-05
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Beyond Relational
I missed this yesterday, but I saw it on the schedule again, and I knew
I had to make this one....
2007-06-05
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Maintenance in SS2K5
Andrew Kelley from Solid Quality Learning did this one, which was good.
I was worried it would be about maintenance plans,...
2007-06-05
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SQL Server Always On
Everyone wants 5 9's of uptime, 24x7 support, and instant fixes for
issues with their database server. Never mind that I'd...
2007-06-05
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SQL Server 2005 Tools
A good talk on the tools from the guy that's responsible for SSMS,
Configuration Manager, Maintenance plans, Surface Area Configuration
Wizard, and...
2007-06-05
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Reunion
We're not partners anymore in SQLServerCentral.com, but Andy, Brian,
and myself got together last night for dinner. We haven't seen each
other...
2007-06-05
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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