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Oscar Garcia is a Principal Software Architect who resides in South Florida. He is a Microsoft MVP and certified solutions developer with many years of experience building enterprise software solutions. He specializes in building cloud solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure as well as data platform and BI projects for data visualization using SQL Server, Firebase, Redshift, JMP, Tableau and PowerBI. You can follow Oscar on Twitter @ozkary or his blog at www.ozkary.com
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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
37
What is returned when I run this code: 
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 3;

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