Look Into Chocolatey
Just a suggestion, but I’d say you should look into Chocolatey. Let me explain why. Sabbatical For those who don’t know I was recently on a six-week sabbatical from...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-09-12)
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The Scary DBA
Database Fundamentals #33: Check Constraints from the GUI
The other types of constraints are referred to as check constraints. They limit the data by defining a logical operation that checks the state of the data prior to...
2022-09-05
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AWS RDS Restore To A Point In Time
The single most important part of backups are not backups. The single most important part of backups are restores. It doesn’t matter a lick if you have 100, flawless...
2022-08-29
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AWS RDS Backups
One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service when it comes to data is the fact that you get RDS backups, built in. Go...
2022-08-22
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Distributed Replay: The Little Engine That Almost Could
Honestly, sincerely, no kidding, I love Distributed Replay. Yes, I get it. Proof positive I’m an idiot. As we needed proof. To be a little fair to me, I...
2022-09-21 (first published: 2022-08-15)
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: Object Changes
I hear this one all the time: How do I find out who implemented object changes? I also get: Can I see the query that caused object changes? Let’s...
2022-08-22 (first published: 2022-08-08)
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Thank You Andy!
I remember going into Andy Leonard’s session at PASS Summit in Denver. I’m not going to lie, it was kind of sparsely attended, so I got to sit up...
2022-08-02
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Learning PostgreSQL: The Tools
In case you don’t know, I’ve been writing a series of articles over on Simple-Talk as I learn PostgreSQL. It’s all from the point of view of a SQL...
2022-09-26 (first published: 2022-08-01)
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Thank You Tim!
Ah, Tim Ford. I remember the time we were sitting at Ruth Kriss Steakhouse trying to figure out which of the two of us was the dumbest person in...
2022-08-12 (first published: 2022-07-26)
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Database Fundamentals #32: Create Unique Constraints with T-SQL
In the last Database Fundamentals post, I explained what a unique constraint was and how you can create them using the GUI. Using TSQL to create a constraint is...
2022-07-25
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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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