DEF CON SQL
An impromptu hacking session, in response to an inexplicably-changed password, reminds Rodney Landrum of some valuable lessons for every DBA.
Using Microsoft Excel to Retrieve SSAS Tabular Data
Although it is well-known how to create a tabular database in PowerPivot, it is less obvious that there are several useful options for retrieving SSAS tabular data into Excel. This provides an easy way of manipulating, visualizing and analyzing the data without needing to know the details of SSAS and the tabular model.
The School Year
This Friday Steve Jones looks forward to the rest of the year. It's almost time for school and do you have plans? Should you be making some plans?
New SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Failed SQL Server logins
This metric returns the number of ‘login failed’ error messages found in the SQL Server error log file in the last hour.
SQL Saturday #235 New York City, NY
Come to SQL Saturday New York on August 17 for a day of free SQL Server training and networking. Some of the speakers at this event include Chris Bell, Ben DeBow, Ashish Sharma, and Hilary Cotter
The Big Data DBA
Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. This article highlights what you need to know to check if you're ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards.
Schema-Owned Tables and Generated DROP Scripts (SQL Spackle)
Not all SQL-generated scripts are created equal (or correctly) for alternative schema-owned objects.
The Human Touch
Humans are often the weakest links in any computer process, but we do need human input. Steve Jones talks about a few issues, and how we should be changing our workflow to reduce issues.
Disaster Recovery Tip #8: Maintain up-to-date contact information
A corollary to Murphy's Law states that disaster is most likely to strike when your senior people are out of the office.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
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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...
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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