Daily Coping 25 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to share a helpful quote, picture, or video with a friend. I usually enjoy sharing quotes with friends on their birthdays. Those of you who...
2022-10-25
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Blog Posts
Comments in your generated code : T-SQL Tuesday #155
The ever amazing Steve Jones (blog|twitter) is our host this month. And in case you didn’t know he also is ... Continue reading
2022-10-24 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Daily Coping 24 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find joy in tackling something that you have put off. I on not a bad procrastinator, but I do put plenty of things off....
2022-10-24
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How to use Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) that uses SIOS DataKeeper for cluster storage
Intro So you have built a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (FCI), or maybe an SAP ASCS/ERS cluster in Azure. Each node of the cluster resides in a different...
2022-10-24 (first published: 2022-10-12)
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Daily Coping 21 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something constructive to improve a difficult situation. My life is amazing, but there are certainly some difficult times. Sometimes at work, sometimes at...
2022-10-21
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PGSQL Phriday #001: Two Truths and a Lie
As a part of my own journey of learning within PostgreSQL, I’ve decided that I’m going to take part in PGSQL Phriday as often as I can, just as...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-07)
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Presenting at DeveloperWeek Global!
I'm excited to be presenting my talk on Building a complete API in Azure
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-20)
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T-SQL Tuesday #155–Using Dynamic SQL for SQLCMD
It’s that time of month, and I’m the host this month. I wrote the invitation last week and now its’ time to answer. I’m actually using an example from...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-11)
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Daily Coping 20 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid blaming yourself or others. Find a helpful way forward. I’ve been busy lately. My days are jammed up with a number of presentations...
2022-10-20
27 reads
Daily Coping 19 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to take time to reflect on what you have accomplished recently. What have I done recently? Lots of stuff, but a couple things come out...
2022-10-19
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
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