A New Word: Trumspringa
trumspringa – n. the longing to wander off your career path in pursuit of a simple life, which is just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts...
2023-05-19
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Blog Posts
Azure Storage Account
This blog post aims to provide an overview of Azure Storage Accounts. It will explain how to create them and use them effectively. Azure Storage Account Azure Storage Account...
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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Reflections on My First-Ever Presentation, Fifteen Years Later
May 3rd represents a small but significant milestone in my career. It was 15 years ago today, on May 3, 2008, when I delivered my first public technical presentation....
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday South Florida 2023
I have never been to the South Florida SQL Saturday. There have been a bunch of events, but for some reason I’ve never been to one. I was excited...
2023-05-19
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Backup Encryption in SQL Server
In this post we look at how you work with the Backup Encryption Feature in SQL Server.
2023-05-18
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
Today, we’re diving into the world of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, breaking them down into three categories: Reflected XSS, Stored XSS, and DOM XSS. Let’s explore these digital threats...
2023-05-17 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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2023-05-17
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Why Put PostgreSQL in Azure
I’ve had people come up to me and say “PostgreSQL is open source and therefore license free. Why on earth would I put PostgreSQL in Azure?” Honestly, I think...
2023-05-17 (first published: 2023-05-08)
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AI Experiments–Who am I and how am I remembered?
I saw someone noting that AIs shouldn’t write obituaries. Since I maintain sqlmemorial.org, I wanted to see what would happen for me. This is part of a series of...
2023-05-16
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Stop Using Balanced Power with SQL Server
The OS default Power Plan for Windows is Balanced Power. This can cause degraded overall performance for SQL Server. Balanced Power is a great concept to help conserve energy...
2023-05-16
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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
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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