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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...

2021-11-17 (first published: )

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AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2021

 
AWS RDS SQL Server Announcements - 2021

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-tempdb-on-local-instance-store-with-r5d-and-m5d-instance-types/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/02/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-now-supports-always-on-availability-groups-for-standard-edition/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/amazon-rds-sql-server-supports-extended-events/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-rds-for-sql-server-supports-managed-disaster-recovery-with-amazon-rds-cross-region-automated-backups/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/announcing-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-on-aws-outposts/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/07/amazon-rds-sql-server-supports-new-minor-versions/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/amazon-rds-sql-server-msdtc-jdbc-xa-sql-server-2017-cu16-plus-sql-server-2019/
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/09/amazon-rds-sql-server-msdtc-jdbc-xa-sql-server-2017-cu16-plus-sql-server-2019/

2021-11-15

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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
37
What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 3;

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