The Easy Phone Restore
This is hardware week for me, with a new phone coming in the mail. This was a warranty replacement for...
2016-02-18
767 reads
Steve Jones
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2016-02-18
1,559 reads
CONVERT and HEX
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-02-17
7,884 reads
Forcing Strong Passwords
Passwords are always a challenge, but are bad passwords the users' fault? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2016-02-17
110 reads
Should Production Databases Be in a VCS?
Steve Jones talks version control, but from the production perspective.
2016-02-16
106 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #75–Power BI
This month’s host is Jorge Seggara, the @sqlchicken, who works for Microsoft. A busy schedule caused a slight delay, so...
2016-02-16
913 reads
Quick Tests–Function Returns
I ran across a neat piece of code recently from Gail Shaw. She answered a question on returning the base...
2016-02-15
1,452 reads
Zero Downtime for 2016
Someone made a call to architect zero downtime for databases. Steve Jones isn't sure this is the best thing you could do.
2016-02-15
170 reads
2016-02-15
1,462 reads
The Push to Upgrade from SQL Server 2005
There's a push to upgrade those SQL Server 2005 instances with support ending this April.
2016-02-12
128 reads
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...
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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