OT: Amateur Astronomy
Back in 1997, when the Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on July 4, releasing the little Sojourner rover to...
2011-11-12
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Blog Posts
Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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Parallel execution in SSIS
Parallel execution in SSIS improves performance on computers that have multiple physical or logical processors. To support parallel execution of...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2008R2 BI Presenations
I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations
Last week, Microsoft announced some pretty fundamental changes in how SQL Server 2012 will be licensed compared to previous versions...
2011-11-11
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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#SSRS error – An item with the same key has already been added
Here is a simple yet annoying error I ran into while creating a dataset. Below is the query that I...
2011-11-10
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Creating a Transaction Log Full Alert
When I was a kid, my mom had an old cookie-tin in which she kept her sewing supplies. On the...
2011-11-10
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 3: Food
Feed Me Seymour!
Welcome to your number one cost. Every budget I’ve looked at so far food is the top expense...
2011-11-10
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Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers