Damian is Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience. Now trying to share the passion and knowledge among others. He runs the blog with his daughter as she is really passionate about technology

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#DPS10 – preconfs

I have delivered a preconf on the biggest conference in Asia. The preconf was about Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning with bonus track about Semi-supervised solutions. This was really...

2019-08-21

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Coffee poured into mug from machine

Weekly reading #24

Hello #SQLFamily! We are packing for the longest trip this year. Next week we will start in Shanghai, then will move to Bangalore for #DPS10 and the last week...

2019-08-06

17 reads

Cup of Coffee

Weekly reading #23

New week has started and apart from the usual information from the data world I would like to share one more. The Machine Learning topic published last week has...

2019-07-29

10 reads

Award

Weekly reading #22

A little bit late but it is here! It is Wednesday already and we are preparing for #DPS2019 which will be in August in Bangalore. Meanhwile I received another...

2019-07-24

26 reads

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BIT_COUNT() IV

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count('A')
What is returned?

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