Indexed views on any core SQL server edition-The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on any core SQL server edition. It has proved to...
2015-10-10
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Art
Indexed views on any core SQL server edition–The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on...
2015-10-10
456 reads
SQL Server Contracting - The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have...
2015-10-09
187 reads
SQL Server Contracting – The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have completely neglected my blog.. Well now that I seem...
2015-10-09
18 reads
XQuery – Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the “attribute” axis even if you don’t...
2014-12-26 (first published: 2014-12-19)
1,567 reads
XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
855 reads
Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...
2014-11-12
302 reads
Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
418 reads
Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
150 reads
Drop and Recreate all Synonyms
Had a quick job the other day restoring a pair of databases under different names which is all straight forward...
2014-11-06 (first published: 2014-10-27)
18,793 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...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
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