SQL Server DBAs are often curious about the inner-workings of SQL Server. Indeed, it can save your job during disasters to know what's going on inside SQL Server. This article shows you how to use some of the SQL Server internal views to view some meta data about your servers.
Continuing with the Worst Practices Series: Steve Jones examines why encryption in the database is a bad idea.
Currently, Microsoft is accepting nominations for the 64-bit version of the SQL Server beta program, code named "Liberty." The Liberty beta program is slated to start in February 2002. Important: You must have access to 64-bit hardware running Windows LE to participate in the Liberty beta program. This beta does not install on 32-bit hardware. Before signing up for the beta, verify that you have access to the appropriate hardware.
SQL Profiler lets you log the results of a trace directly to a table, yet would you believe you can't save the trace as a script to do the exact same thing? Find out why and get some ideas on work arounds.
Things your non-technical friends don't want to hear in the lab...
Andy says it's not the greatest book for preparing for the 70-100 exam, but the case study is worth reading for it's explanation of the Microsoft Solution Framework. Read the full review!
SQLXML 3.0 beta adds new functionality to SQL Server 2000, giving developers the capability to expose stored procedures and XML templates as Web Services. It also includes all the features of SQLXML 1.0 and 2.0.
If you use identity values, chances are that at some point you will need to find more information about the next value or reset the seed. This article looks at how you can accomplish this.
This document (divided in chapters for your convenience) describes how to design a secure, scalable, highly available, and manageable Internet data center that is based on Microsoft products. This documentation examines the major challenges to consider when designing an Internet data center architecture and how this design addresses these challenges.
This webcast is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 10:00 AM Pacific time.During this session, we will show a practical approach to analyze performance tuning problems that involve Microsoft SQL Server lock monitoring data. We will briefly discuss sp_who2, sysprocesses, and syslocks.
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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