Should You Use Index Hints?
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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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Blog Posts
SQL Operations Studio: Keyboard Shortcuts, Actual Plans, & More
Last week I posted a quiz on SQL Operations Studio, a free, multi-platform tool from Microsoft. This tool is under active development and the features are improving by the day...
2018-07-31
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SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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The need for having both a DW and cubes
I have heard some people say if you have a data warehouse, there is no need for cubes (when I...
2018-07-31 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Are you a morning or evening person?
I am not a morning person. I’ve really tried but there’s something in me that just stops me from getting...
2018-07-30
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Coming Back After complete 3 Years
Friends/My Readers,
Its been a long i have been away from my blogging.When i see back Its exactly 3 yrs Today(30/July/2015...
2018-07-30
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Forcing Execution Plan
Very rarely there is a need to force an execution plan and even more rarely we should be doing it....
2018-07-30 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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SQL Server Availability Group Auto Seeding Error
SQL Server Availability Group Auto Seeding is a wonderful thing, it saves database administrators time when setting up availability groups. ...
2018-07-30
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The Failed One Laptop Per Child Project
I wrote about OLPC back in 2010 (and before that, somewhere back on a post I didnt port over here...
2018-07-30
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ArcGIS Maps for Power BI: Plus subscription (2nd part); What's in it for me?
(2018-July-29) My initial attempt to explore and test the ArcGIS Map paid version continued after receiving a response from the...
2018-07-29
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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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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