Daily Coping 15 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...
2021-11-15
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Blog Posts
SQL Homework – November 2021 – Backup, restore, and move the system databases?
On any instance you have at least 5 system databases. Master, model, msdb, tempdb and one other. First 5 points ... Continue reading
2021-11-15 (first published: 2021-11-02)
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Which Processes are waiting on a Spinlock?
Spinlock contention is always a real headache to deal with. I recently saw an issue when spinlock contention on SOS_CACHESTORE was making the server virtually unresponsive. The issue was...
2021-11-15 (first published: 2021-11-03)
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#PowershellBasics: Select the columns in the output.
After my post last week on sorting the list, I now have a list of files, sorted in the right ... Continue reading
2021-11-12 (first published: 2021-11-04)
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Daily Coping 12 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...
2021-11-12
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2021
Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform and...
2021-11-12 (first published: 2021-11-03)
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Daily Coping 11 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...
2021-11-11
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Pass Summit 2021: A quick thank you to @Redgate.
I’d just like to say a quick thank you to Redgate for hosting the Pass Summit, all of the amazing ... Continue reading
2021-11-11
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Azure SQL Managed Instance – Premium Tier
In case you are not aware Microsoft have now deployed a new change to SQL Managed Instances within the tier types. In certain regions ( shown later) you can...
2021-11-10
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Daily Coping 10 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...
2021-11-10
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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