Time to find a new place to live
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at various different locations around Dublin as my tenancy in the...
2018-01-15
273 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2018-01-11
Phew, what a week! Have been looking for a new flat to live so it’s been a bit mad. Have...
2018-01-12
315 reads
Comparing two SQL instances
Last week I was working on a couple of SQL instances that contained databases which were part of an Always...
2018-01-10
487 reads
Roll on 2018!
Hey everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!
I took December off from blogging as had started...
2018-01-08
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Checking SQL Configuration with Pester & Dbatools
I know, I know, there’s loads of different ways to test the configuration of SQL Server but I’ve started playing...
2017-12-13 (first published: 2017-11-29)
1,848 reads
Friday Reading 2017-11-17
Fun week, lots of stuff to organise and prepare for! Whilst I’ve had some downtime I’ve been reading…
Write your first...
2017-11-17
300 reads
Running SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services (AKS) II
I’ve previously blogged about running SQL Server in ACS but Microsoft has now released a new version still called Azure...
2017-11-15
995 reads
Blogging for four years!
I find it absolutely amazing that I’ve been writing this blog for four years. My first ever post My 5...
2017-11-13
234 reads
Friday Reading 2017-10-27
Morning all! PASS Summit is coming next week but unfortunately I can’t make it this year. I hope everyone who...
2017-10-27
417 reads
Enabling the SQL Server Agent in Linux Containers
At SQL Saturday Holland a few weeks ago I was (surprise, surprise) chatting about containers and mentioned that I hadn’t...
2017-11-06 (first published: 2017-10-25)
1,765 reads
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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