Earlier this year I presented at PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT on the topic of "Efficient Cross-Server Data Joins on Slow Networks with Python". You can watch...
2023-11-13
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I’m up in Seattle this week for the PASS Data Community Summit 2023. This is almost an annual event for me. I’ve missed a few since 1999, but not...
2023-11-13
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This technical blog is hardly the ideal, but I'll use this space here to summarize some of the guidance that my colleague Randolph West and I presented at a...
2023-11-13 (first published: 2023-10-27)
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As PASS Summit approaches this week, I’m re-reviewing my evaluations from SQL Saturday Boston and I’d like to give feedback about feedback.
Why Feedback? Both speakers and event organizers depend...
2023-11-12
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heartspur – n. an unexpected surge of emotion in response to a seemingly innocuous trigger – the distinctive squeal of a rusty fence, a key change in an old...
2023-11-10
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A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going...
2023-11-10
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There was an update to Flyway Desktop which lets you see the type of database your project is associated with, and this post shows how to get this in...
2023-11-10
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Games Night is back at the Summit, this time on Wednesday night in a large space for 200 people plus to enjoy some fun with friends and colleagues. This...
2023-11-10 (first published: 2023-11-02)
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Appreciate everyone who has reached out asking if I would be attending the PASS Data Summit out in Seattle this year. Yes, I will be, and I am looking...
2023-11-10
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All week, my phone has been reminding me (via photo memories) of the amazing experience I had at PASS Summit 2017. This can mean only one thing - PASS...
2023-11-10 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
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