2017-02-20
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Editorials
2017-02-16
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What Would You Do if Your Company Was Targeted?
Today we have a guest editorial that asks what you might do if you knew a hacker was coming after your organization.
2017-02-15
121 reads
Quality Provides Traction/Velocity
Quality is a driver for productivity. Or so say I. What do you think.
2017-02-14
97 reads
Problems With Database Problems
The GitLab crisis has Steve Jones thinking about two things: competence and care.
2017-02-13
121 reads
The Second Career
From a well-built cockney who knew how to avoid wheel clamps, to an ex-member of an elite anti-riot unit, some of the best DBAs have a surprising diversity of skills and experiences, according to Phil Factor.
2017-02-13
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Moving Through Five Years
An updated editorial. The five years are almost up for the prediction that IT departments would be eliminated. Read Steve Jones thoughts on where we are today.
2017-02-10
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Why Devops? For Better Security
DevOps is supposed to help us build better software, faster. Steve Jones looks at one of the other benefits: security.
2017-02-09
108 reads
2017-02-08
167 reads
A View of the Cloud
Today Steve Jones looks at how we can better build software by considering the cloud.
2017-02-06
79 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)...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Fixing P1 Queries
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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