Are You Protected from Ransomware
There have been many organizations that have become victims of ransomware over the years. Occasionally we hear about some high-profile cases in the news. Most every case I’ve read...
2023-09-19
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Blog Posts
Product Review: DataVeil
If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the DataVeil solution. Quite simply, getting production data out of non-production environments is still a big...
2023-09-19
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ADS Copilot Experiments with XML
I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 1
In this series of articles I will be sharing the common mistakes in SQL Server. I am certain that this is going to be very interesting read, here is...
2023-09-18
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State of the Database Landscape Survey 2023
As data professionals, of any stripe, we should, as much as we can, where we can, base our decisions on data. After all, in theory anyway, we’re the experts...
2023-09-18 (first published: 2023-08-23)
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The Last Price Bump for the Data Community Summit
This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full price, on Sep 21. This is your last chance to save big, so get someone...
2023-09-18
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DataMoshpit!
Today I’m presenting at DataMospit, the most metal conference in the data space! You can download the Sea of Madness bingo card from here: https://github.com/spaghettidba/CodeSamples/raw/master/SQLServerInfernals/InfernalBingo.xlsx The winner will get...
2023-09-16
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A New Word: Justing
justing – n. the habit of telling yourself that just one tweak could solve all your problems – if only you had the right haircut, if only you found...
2023-09-15
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Friday Flyway Tips: Searching Migrations
When a Flyway Desktop (FWD) project (or Flyway project) has been around for a long time, there can be a lot of migration scripts. That can be a pain...
2023-09-15 (first published: 2023-08-11)
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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...
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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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