Lax Security - Database Weekly (June 22, 2009)
This week Steve Jones talks about database security, or the lack thereof, in today's world.
Becoming a DBA
Steve Jones was recently asked how he knows someone is ready to be a DBA. It's an interesting question and he shares some thoughts on this today.
Becoming a DBA
Steve Jones was recently asked how he knows someone is ready to be a DBA. It's an interesting question and he shares some thoughts on this today.
Becoming a DBA
Steve Jones was recently asked how he knows someone is ready to be a DBA. It's an interesting question and he shares some thoughts on this today.
Logging connection strings
If you some of the dynamic features of SSIS such as package configurations or property expressions then sometimes trying to work out were your connections are pointing can be a bit confusing.
Using the OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME function to return the schema name
I tend to do a great deal of meta-data (or is it metadata) mining from the system compatibility views and system catalog views in order to build dynamic ad-hoc T/SQL code to use for various administrative processes.
What I’ve Read and Recommend to Others – SQL Server 2008 Part 1
I read, a lot. I’ve been a prolific reader all my adult life. I use to split my reading between tech books and my regular relaxing reading but since I got into audio books several years ago I just pretty much read tech books now. Some times I’ll listen..
Grown Up Software
We all want to write better software, but do we really want to write grown up software? Steve Jones talks about one of the most successful software groups ever.
Grown Up Software
We all want to write better software, but do we really want to write grown up software? Steve Jones talks about one of the most successful software groups ever.
Grown Up Software
We all want to write better software, but do we really want to write grown up software? Steve Jones talks about one of the most successful software groups ever.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers