Microsoft Fabric – the first look
Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Fabric during the Microsoft Build conference. This is a unified analytic solution of the era of AI. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics...
2023-05-24
468 reads
Microsoft Fabric – the first look
Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Fabric during the Microsoft Build conference. This is a unified analytic solution of the era of AI. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics...
2023-05-24
12 reads
Weekly reading #30
Good morning in November! We were all looking at the Microsoft Ignite in Orlando last week. And it happened! SQL Server 2019 is now generally available – more details...
2019-11-11
45 reads
Weekly reading #30
Good morning in November! We were all looking at the Microsoft Ignite in Orlando last week. And it happened! SQL Server 2019 is now generally available – more details...
2019-11-11
15 reads
Interview with Bob Ward
This is the eight interview we have done. This time our guest is the one and the only Bob Ward! Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft...
2019-10-30 (first published: 2019-10-18)
380 reads
Weekly reading #29
The Data Breach Game: The 9 Worst IT Security Practices Joey D’Antoni shows bad practices for security in SQL Server. He summarizes all the most important areas you should...
2019-10-21
28 reads
Weekly reading #29
The Data Breach Game: The 9 Worst IT Security Practices Joey D’Antoni shows bad practices for security in SQL Server. He summarizes all the most important areas you should...
2019-10-21
13 reads
Interview with Bob Ward
This is the eight interview we have done. This time our guest is the one and the only Bob Ward! Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft...
2019-10-18
12 reads
Interview with Joe Sack
This is the seventh interview we have done. This time our guest is Joe Sack! Joe is Principal Program Manager for Azure SQL Database with a focus on query...
2019-10-11 (first published: 2019-10-03)
316 reads
Weekly reading #28
September is over. This was not a good month for us. We had to cancel the conferences planned for September and were not able to write as much as...
2019-10-10
35 reads
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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