The Redgate Summit: New York
The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at...
2024-08-05
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Blog Posts
Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to access the Azure SQL DBs where I work. To make our lives easier, we are...
2024-08-05 (first published: 2024-07-25)
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A New Word: Bareleveling
bareleveling – v. trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’’ll end up calling...
2024-08-02
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Friday Flyway Tips–Comparison Defaults
One of the little details that I find matter more and more in enterprises is understanding why a tool behaves a certain way. OSS/home-grown ones often have limited docs,...
2024-08-02 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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My personal experience dockerizing a Rust Application: Deploy to AWS ECR using Github Actions
I have heard about many interesting things about programming in Rust and I decided to use Rust for one of my applications. I enjoyed the programming experience in Rust...
2024-08-02 (first published: 2024-07-20)
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SQL Training: The Hidden Engine Driving Business Growth
In the digital age, data is the new gold, but it's worthless if you can't understand and use it. That's where SQL (Structured Query Language) comes in. SQL is...
2024-08-02
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Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
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Are Your Secondary Availability Group Read Only Replicas Falling Behind? Are You Seeing PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN Waits?
Are you struggling with a laggy redo and a build up in the redo queue on your readonly secondaries? Are you suffering with high PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN waits? Then this magic...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-17)
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App
Here's how we used WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS to build our local development app, Studio.
2024-07-31
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Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers