This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Rob Sewell and he’s posed the following question:
What are you going to automate today with PowerShell?
I’m cheating a little bit in that...
2017-09-12
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While working on an enhancement to dbatools, I had a need to stash a local copy of a file downloaded from the internet, but in a safe place that...
2017-08-17
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I’ve recently started contributing to the dbatools project and it’s all done through GitHub. Prior to this, I’d never used git and GitHub for anything more than an offsite...
2017-08-09
8 reads
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Raul Gonzalez and he’s asked everyone to share things we might be a bit embarrassed about:
For this month, I want you...
2017-07-11
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Earlier this week I was working on adding a new feature to Update-DbaTools and while looking at another cmdlet to check syntax/conventions, I noticed an ugly typo in some...
2017-07-05
21 reads
A few weeks ago I was looking at a query and got tripped up by the network and my own forgetfulness. It was a pretty simple query with a...
2017-06-12
6 reads
Recently I was working on a bit of PowerShell to download the awesome First Responder Kit from Brent Ozar Unlimited. The canonical URL for the FRK is http://firstresponderkit.org/ but...
2017-06-05
19 reads
Kevin Hill mentioned this idea/series on a SQL community slack channel back in April and I thought it would be a good way to get back to blogging. The timing...
2017-05-30
25 reads
For years I’ve looked at various queries online in sample code, diagnostic queries using DMVs, and the like and seen CROSS APPLY in the FROM clauses. But I’ve never...
2017-05-22
6 reads
In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...
2017-01-20
61 reads
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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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