SQL Server Logs - SQL School Video
Did you know that SQL Server maintains a great set of text logs about events on the server? MVP Andy Warren shows you how to get information out of the error logs in this SQL School video.
Active August posts
I've started a blog to write down and track my personal goals:
The Goal Keeping DBA
Since Active August is part of reaching my goal...
Attribute Discretization: Using the “Clusters” Method
Join BI Architect Bill Pearson as he leads hands-on practice with the “Clusters” discretization method in Analysis Services. In this article we continue to explore attribute discretization, as a part of an extended examination of the dimensional model lying at the heart of the integrated Microsoft Business Intelligence solution.
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
Looking for Good (and Bad) SQL Server Blogs
I was asked to do an hour presentation during the 24 Hours of PASS, which takes place on Sept 2,...
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide
Because Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services query and processing performance tuning is a fairly broad subject, this white paper organizes performance tuning techniques into the following three segments.
Be a Craftsman
Is software engineering dead? Some well respected software developers have stated that, and one says we should be craftsman, not engineers.
Changing Table Schema – what goes behind the scenes – Part I
What happens behind the scenes when you alter a table schema? New author Alok Dwivedi dives deep into SQL Server to show us how things are affected.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Want to look at cloud reporting but not sure what the costs will be?
By ChrisJenkins
Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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