Encrypting Data
Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.
Encrypting Data
Encrypting data is the easy part of dealing with encryption and databases. Steve Jones talks about some of the other, more difficult, issues you must handle.
Essential Steps for the Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse, Part 1
This article provides guidance to what an integrated EDW is and what design elements are needed to achieve integration.
SQL Server Management Studio Reports and Dashboard
This article examines the built in reports called SQL Server Management Studio Reports and an additional add-on called Performance Dashboard.
Boycott?
Steve Jones asks for some opinions on how to approach the new timeframe of software releases.
Mirrored Backups
One very interesting new feature in SQL Server 2005 is the ability to run backups to multiple locations, ensuring you have a second copy of the backup file if your first one were to be corrupted. SQL Server expert Andy Warren takes a look at how this feature works and the implications of using it.
Moving Databases
SQL Server trainer and longtime expert, Andy Warren brings us a great article on one basic skill that every DBA should know.
Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
A short review of the WROX red covered book that looks at Integration Services for the DBA.
Screencast: SQL PerfMon counters for buffer manager
SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline focuses on PerfMon counters for SQL Server and shares best practices for tracking IO intensive access methods and buffer manager activity.
The CLR
The CLR was one of the highly touted additions to SQL Server 2005, and one of the reasons for its long development cycle. Steve Jones comments on why it hasn't been that widely used.
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
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
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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