October Is National Disability Employment Awareness Month
As many of you know, I was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease a couple of years ago. Since then, I have 9 made it a personal mission...
2023-10-09
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Blog Posts
Penetration Testing your SQL Server, Part 1 – The Recon Mission
Since witnessing a rather nasty cyber attack around a year ago, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about security. Do we really know how secure our SQL Servers are?...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-26)
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Quick Tip: Taking advantage of Read-Only SQL Server replicas in your C# application
If you happen to be using C# there is a very easy way to set your application up to take advantage of Read-Only replicas.
Using this connection string: (Some portions...
2023-10-09 (first published: 2023-09-18)
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A New Word: Ringlorn
ringlorn – adj. the wish that the modern world felt as epic as one depicted in old stories and folktales – a place of tragedy and transcendence, of oaths...
2023-10-06
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Extended Events and I (T-SQL Tuesday #166)
Foreword
This month’s invitation is from Grant Fritchey (t|b), aka the Scary DBA, about Extended Events (XEs).
If you look at the Tags section of my blog, you can see that...
2023-10-06 (first published: 2023-09-13)
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Quick Filtering in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I often do, but I thought this was great. A Long List This is the list...
2023-10-06 (first published: 2023-09-27)
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The Database DevOps Roadshow Continues (with fun photos)
At SQL Saturday Denver 2023, I had a few people ask me about the Redgate Database DevOps roadshow and how it was going. A few people asked about the...
2023-10-06
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6 Best SQL Training Courses for Beginners (2024 Updated)
In the technologically driven world of 2024, more individuals are finding themselves drawn towards the intricacies of database management. Central to this booming sector is SQL, a programming language exclusively...
2023-10-04
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About 5 Minutes with Microsoft Fabric
Introducing the Fabric 5 from Data on Wheels Microsoft Fabric went to public preview this past summer. There has been content created around using the various cool features that...
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
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Making Extended Events a bit more usable : T-SQL Tuesday #166
Running a bit late this month for T-SQL Tuesday (it’s not exactly Tuesday is it!) but that’s Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) ... Continue reading
2023-10-04 (first published: 2023-09-14)
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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