Data lakes and swamps, oh my
I was lamenting to my friend and fellow MVP Shamir Charania (blog | Twitter) that I didn’t have a topic for...
2018-08-01 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Blog Posts
Don’t do these things in SQL Server
Recently Brent Ozar posted a link to the PostgreSQL “Don’t do this” page, which I am shamelessly reproducing below, re-tailored...
2018-08-01
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First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group
06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...
2018-08-01
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Have you ever wonder why Log Send Rate doesn’t show against Primary Replica on the AlwaysOn Dashboard?
Recently, I was working on the AlwaysOn Availability group issue where the log records were not moving from primary to...
2018-08-01
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Schedule an Extended Event to run at a Specific Time
When you are using the extended event to capture some data for troubleshooting purpose, you may want to start or...
2018-08-01 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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SQL Homework – August 2018 – Set up database mail
This month’s homework is pretty simple to say, not necessarily easy to do. Set up database mail.
Why database mail?...
2018-08-01
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Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share...
2018-07-31
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Failed to join local availability replica to Availability Group – SQL Server error 41106 and 41158
When you configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group from management studio, it may fail with below error while joining secondary...
2018-07-31
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RESTORE VERIFYONLY what does WITH LOADHISTORY do?
Recently someone mentioned the LOADHISTORY option of RESTORE. It’s not horribly hard to find in BOL but it wasn’t the...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-18)
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Should You Use Index Hints?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
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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...
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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 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers