A New Word: Flichtish
flichtish – adj. nervously aware how much of your self-image is based on untested assumptions about yourself – only ever guessing how you’d react to a violent thread, a...
2024-05-17
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Blog Posts
Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the job, but the other part is removing local branches. This post looks at one way...
2024-05-17 (first published: 2024-05-01)
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Develop and Test Your Rollback Plan
he rollback plan... what to do when things go wrong to get back to where you were before the deployment or implementation. I've seen too many cases where a...
2024-05-17 (first published: 2024-05-01)
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The Ireland and UK DevOps Roadshow
We’re taking the roadshow across the water. Hope the plane makes it. The Redgate DevOps Roadshow comes to Ireland and the Northern UK in June. We’ll be in these...
2024-05-16
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Microsoft Fabric shortcuts
I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the great unifier (where I have updated the picture with the newest supported sources) and wanted...
2024-05-15 (first published: 2024-05-01)
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SQL Aggregate Functions: Your Essential Guide & Cheat Sheet
SQL aggregate functions are your go-to tools for transforming raw data into actionable insights. They condense multiple rows into single, meaningful values, making it easier to grasp the big...
2024-05-15
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Will AI Replace SQL Developers? The Answer Might Surprise You!
The world of databases keeps growing, and the pressure to extract meaningful insights from that data increases just as fast. If you work with data, you know that SQL...
2024-05-15 (first published: 2024-05-01)
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Getting Error 64 When Trying To Connect to SQL Server or Azure
Often times when working with a client, I’ll run into issues or get emails from a client with a message like the following: A connection was successfully established with...
2024-05-14
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Friday Basics: the CIA Triad
In information security (INFOSEC), there several foundational concepts and principles. One of the ones that’s introduced almost immediately is called the CIA triad or the Information Security Triad. While...
2024-05-13 (first published: 2024-04-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday 174 - Your Favorite Job Interview Questions
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Kevin Feasel
(blog | twitter) asks us about job interview questions.
What is your...
2024-05-13
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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.” –...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Want to look at cloud reporting but not sure what the costs will be?
By ChrisJenkins
Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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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 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers