End of October Free Training from PASS Virtual Chapters
This wraps up the last of the free training the PASS Virtual Chapters are providing in October.
Remote Security
As more and more people look to work away from inside traditional networks, security becomes an issue. As a data professional, Steve Jones reminds you to be sure that your data is protected.
SQL Slammer
It's been seven years since SQL Slammer, the worst SQL Server security worm struck. Steve Jones remembers that time.
SQLServerCentral Webinar Series #3: Optimize your SQL Server storage with SQL Storage Compress
Another webinar from SQLServerCentral that examines how you can compress your data on any edition of SQL Server.
Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework
The challenge of bringing data from efficient storage engines such as SQL Server into object-oriented programming models is hardly a new one. Most developers address this challenge by writing complex data access code to move data between their applications and the database. This requires an understanding of the database so that you can access data either from the raw tables, from views, or from stored procedures.
Sending multiple rows to the Database from an Application: Part II
In part 2 of this series, Mohd Nizamuddin looks at sending multiple rows to the database from an application using XML.
Investigating Transactions Using Dynamic Management Objects
There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a fully loaded production system. When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them?
Cheap Fun
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about ways to enjoy life without spending a lot of money. Some of these might even be great team building ideas.
Notifications for SQL Server Agent Restarts
This article demostrates how to set up email notifications for SQL Server Agent Restarts.
When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers