How to find tables with 0 records using space
This is a follow up post to the previous one about tables with no records using data space, with the idea coming from twitter of all places. Sometimes on...
2022-03-11
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Blog Posts
Recipe 3: Merging and manipulating events
Welcome to the third recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-11 (first published: 2022-02-24)
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Database Code Reviews
I’ll be honest, ever since I did a SQL Homework about doing code reviews I’ve wanted to do a blog ... Continue reading
2022-03-10
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Database Code Reviews
I’ll be honest, ever since I did a SQL Homework about doing code reviews I’ve wanted to do a blog ... Continue reading
2022-03-10
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Snowflake Integration to Azure AD
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft Azure’s identity and access management providing authentication and authorization mechanism for internal and external applications in Azure ecosystem. With AD(more...)
The post Snowflake Integration to...
2022-03-10
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Check if File Exists Before Deploying SQL Script to Azure SQL Managed Instance in Azure Release Pipelines
I have been in Azure DevOps pipelines a lot recently, helping clients set up automated releases. Many of my clients are not in a place where automated build and...
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-03-09
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ETL v ELT
This is part of a series on my preparation for the DP-900 exam. This is the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals, part of a number of certification paths. You can...
2022-03-09
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Help, not all of my column is displaying in the output of the query!
I’ll be honest, I don’t remember if I’ve written about this before but I couldn’t find it, so here we ... Continue reading
2022-03-09 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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How do I merge a small part of a Git repo into another repo?
At my new day job, one of the things we want to do is migrate a portion of a really large Git repository (over 20GB) which I’ll call LargeRepo,...
2022-03-09
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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...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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