There Are a Lot of Databases
Steve notes today that there are many, many database platforms out there you can use for your next application.
2026-01-30
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Databases
How to Move System Databases to a New Physical Directory
What is the easiest way to move SQL Server system databases. Let me walk you through it!
2020-05-25
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2014-06-11
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2011-12-08
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2014-09-23 (first published: 2010-02-17)
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2009-04-28
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Growth remaining for SQL Server 2005 databases
This script is little bit similar to the one posted for SQL Server 2000 that finds how much space you have left.
2009-01-30 (first published: 2009-01-19)
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
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How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
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Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
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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