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Goals for 2024

Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...

2024-03-20

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DataTune Nashville 2024 Recap

DataTune 2024 was a huge success! Thank you so much to the organizers who spent countless months planning and making this an incredible conference! It was so great to...

2024-03-18 (first published: )

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Don't Trust the Defaults

(2024-Mar-08) Software installation typically involves several steps. After accepting the license agreement, you may have an express option to streamline the installation process by accepting all defaults, including the installation...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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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       NULL
What is returned when I run this code: 
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 4;

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