Monday Coffee: 24 Hours of Pass – Summit Preview
Starting at 12pm (UTC) this Wednesday is the online event 24 Hours of PASS – Summit Preview
For anyone out there who...
2017-07-17
289 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Friday Reading 2017-07-14
Fun week, and what a Lions final test last weekend. Still can’t believe it!
Here’s what I’ve been reading…
STOPAT And Date...
2017-07-14
291 reads
Creating SQL Server containers with docker compose
Up until now my posts about containers have been talking about working with one container only. In the real world...
2017-07-26 (first published: 2017-07-12)
7,842 reads
Monday Coffee: Database Deployments
I’ve always been particularly cautious when it comes to deploying code to databases, some would say overly cautious.
Because of this...
2017-07-10
725 reads
Running dbatools commands with VS Code tasks
I’ve started to look at the excellent dbatools.io to automate some of the checks that I routinely perform on my...
2017-07-07
906 reads
Friday Reading 2017-07-07
Final Lions Test tomorrow! The win last week sets up a thrilling series decider, if they win they’ll be the...
2017-07-07
797 reads
Persisting data in docker containers – Part Three
Last week in Part Two I went through how to create named volumes and map them to containers in order...
2017-07-19 (first published: 2017-07-05)
3,190 reads
Monday Coffee: Alerts & Checks
Hope you all had a good weekend, the Lions won so I’m pretty happy.
Over the weekend I was thinking about...
2017-07-03
357 reads
Friday Reading 2017-06-30
Second test for the British & Irish Lions tomorrow, they need this one to keep the series alive. I’ll be up...
2017-06-30
568 reads
Persisting data in docker containers – Part Two
Last week in Part One I went through how to mount directories from the host server into a docker container...
2017-07-10 (first published: 2017-06-28)
1,627 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
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers