Daily Coping 23 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be generous. Feed someone with food, love, or kindness today It’s often a family day today, as work ends and we prepare for Christmas....
2022-12-23
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #157–The End of Year
It’s that time of the month, and I’m late. I’ve been on holiday for a week, so this is a quick post for T-SQL Tuesday. This month is hosted...
2022-12-23 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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Daily Coping 22 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to buy an extra item and donate to a local food bank. The food banks in my area are only open limited days, especially post...
2022-12-22
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Daily Coping 21 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to listen wholeheartedly to someone else, without judging them. I get the chance to talk with lots of people. I make it a point when...
2022-12-21
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Effectively Integrating FHIR Data from Azure Health Services
This blog is intended to be a follow up from the SQL Saturday 2022 in Oregon & SW Washington. In that session I presented an introduction to FHIR and...
2022-12-21 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday #157 – Closing out 2022
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by ME. The subject I chose is “What are your year-end activities?” My post for T-SQL Tuesday #157 will outline some examples...
2022-12-21 (first published: 2022-12-13)
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Daily Coping 20 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something helpful for a friend or family member. Easy one for me. My daughter came home from University yesterday, and I took time...
2022-12-20
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VMUG Ireland Relaunch Event
SAVE THE DATE: VMUG Ireland Relaunch Event February 9th, 2023 Location: Dublin VMUG Ireland is back! We are hosting a VMUG Relaunch event in Dublin on February 9th, 2023....
2022-12-20
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Daily Coping 19 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to give kind comments to as many people as possible today. Not an easy tip for me to follow as I’ve been a little home...
2022-12-19
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jurn - A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work
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How do you keep track of your daily work accomplishments?
If you are like me, you wait until the end of the week and then...
2022-12-19
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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...
Forums
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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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
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