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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Fixing P1 Queries

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BIT_COUNT() IV

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Question of the Day

BIT_COUNT() IV

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count('A')
What is returned?

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