24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview
Registration is open for the second 24 Hours of PASS this year. This one is going to be a preview...
2010-08-11
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Blog Posts
A Chance to Win a Free Trip to the PASS Summit
Passing along this contest from Idera and MSSQLTips. I don’t do many plugs, but it’s a chance for someone to...
2010-08-11
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Defensive Db Programming Chapter 04
This week we will be checking out the fourth chapter of this book by Alex. This is a continuous effort...
2010-08-11
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Logo Selected for SQLRally
Hopefully everyone saw the announcement already, either via the PASS Connector or the Twitter announcement, but we have – finally! – a...
2010-08-11
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Registration Open for 24 Hours of PASS
The ‘Summit Preview’ edition, this time around it features speakers from the upcoming PASS Summit with each doing a one...
2010-08-11
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Sharing a Temporary Table
One of the things that I’ve often seen people do is build temp tables to hold data for each connection...
2010-08-11
2,143 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS on September 15, 2010
I will be one of the presenters for the 3rd installment of the 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview, which...
2010-08-11
780 reads
SQL Reporting Services - Line Graph with a Vertical Bar
So, I was recently asked if you could display a vertical bar on a line graph to denote the last...
2010-08-11
3,334 reads
SQL Saturday #48, Come One, Come All
SQL Saturday #48 - Columbia, SC, is a little over 7 weeks away (October 2, 2010), so we're picking up the...
2010-08-11
531 reads
Using the Windows Experience Index as a Shopping Tool
One easy to use and useful tool that you can use to compare relative performance between different machines that are...
2010-08-11
1,521 reads
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