Daily Coping 22 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-22
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Blog Posts
Decoding SSRS Subscription Agent Jobs
Hello and welcome back… It has been a few months since I have published a blog post. More like 126 days, to be exact. Unfortunately, I have been dealing...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-16)
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Failover Groups for Managed Instances
If you have been following me for a while you will know that I really like the Fail over groups within Azure SQL DB and it is no different...
2021-11-22
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Reading Data from the Command Line in PowerShell–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. In every language I’ve coded in, there is...
2021-11-22
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SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
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SQL Server 2022 is coming
SQL Server 2022 is still in private preview (Microsoft MVP folks have access to it), but you can now read about the new release before it is released: SQL...
2021-11-22
3 reads
STRING_SPLIT Has Ordinals
I noticed the docs for STRING_SPLIT now show that there is a third parameter. This brings us an ordinal for the positioning of the data. The format is now:...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-17)
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Daily Coping 19 Nov 2021
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...
2021-11-19
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My PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Speaking Experience
If you’d asked me 5 years ago if I would ever speak at Summit, I’d have said “no way, not possible.” I didn’t even think I was able to...
2021-11-19
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Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit
I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look...
2021-11-19 (first published: 2021-11-14)
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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