Do you even PowerShell, bro? An ode to dbatools and dbachecks.
Shall I compare thee to Management Studio? Thou art more scriptable and consistent. Those out-of-memory errors do tend to lose...
2018-08-15
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Blog Posts
I’m Joining Redgate Software!
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining the evangelist team at Redgate. Starting next Monday, I’ll be working with Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, and Kathi Kellenberger — plus the whole...
2018-08-15
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Identifying HIPAA, PCI & SOX Data for Masking
Working for a company based in the UK (still currently a part of the EU) I had a lot of...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-30)
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 4.2: The Jensen–Shannon Divergence and Its Relatives
by Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this amateur series of self-tutorials on DIY data mining metrics, we saw how...
2018-08-15 (first published: 2018-07-31)
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What’s new in SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 is considered a major release in the history of the SQL Server life cycle for various reasons....
2018-08-15
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6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-08-14
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6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-08-14
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Another Brick in the Wall–T-SQL Tuesday #105
It’s that time again, and this month we have a good topic from Wayne Sheffield. We’re asked about getting stuck,...
2018-08-14
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ArcGIS Maps for Power BI: Free vs. Paid version
(2018-July-25) I like the ESRI company slogan, "The Science of Where". Hopefully, it will help someone not to get lost in...
2018-08-14 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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Azure SQL DW – Query Labels
Using a query label in Azure SQL DW (Data Warehouse) can be a really handy technique to track queries via...
2018-08-14
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers