Eitan Blumin

Eitan Blumin is a SQL Server database expert and a senior consultant at Madeira Data Solutions. He has many years of experience in all fields of SQL Server (since the year 2005), including but not limited to: Database design, management, development, tuning, replication, backup management, security management, SSIS, SSRS, encryption, disaster recovery and more.
Eitan also has 10 years of experience in ASP web development, and some experience in a wide variety of development environments such as PHP, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, Perl, Assembler, Powershell and more.

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BIT_COUNT II

In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data: 

UserID  UserPermissions
15
23
37
4       NULL
What is returned when I run this code: 
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 4;

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