Giving Back – #TSQL2sday
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a...
2014-12-09
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on...
2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Generating T-SQL Randomly with Powershell
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...
2014-11-05
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Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...
2014-11-04
4,911 reads
Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
711 reads
PowerShell Snippets A Great Learning Tool
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good...
2014-09-09
735 reads
Find Out Which Indexes are on which Filegroups using PowerShell And How To Find Other Information
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Which indexes are on...
2014-09-07
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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