Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you Log Ship are NOT also doing log backups in your SQL Maintenance Plans, Ola Jobs,...
2021-10-22 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 21 Oct 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...
2021-10-21
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Azure Purview is generally available
After a very long public preview (9 months), Azure Purview is finally generally available (GA). I described Purview in a previous blog (New Microsoft data governance product: Azure Purview)....
2021-10-20 (first published: 2021-10-05)
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Daily Coping 20 Oct 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...
2021-10-20
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Join me next week at my first GroupBy session
2021 has been the year people want to learn about Temporal Tables, it seems. Not only am I speaking at the SQL Trail conference next week, but I was...
2021-10-20
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Updated Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress
My updated course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer...
2021-10-20
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Using SQL Data Compare with Joins
Recently a customer was asking about how they could move data with SQL Data Compare from one server to another. In this case, the customer had a complex join...
2021-10-20 (first published: 2021-10-04)
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Commenting a branching IF-THEN-ELSE.
I’m a big fan of comments (MSSQL, Powershell), so along those lines here’s an interesting way to comment an IF-THEN-ELSE ... Continue reading
2021-10-19
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Daily Coping 19 Oct 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...
2021-10-19
19 reads
A DBA horror story in database file extensions.
CREATE DATABASE [Story]
ON PRIMARY
( NAME = N'Story', FILENAME = N'C:DataStory.mdf',SIZE = 101MB),
FILEGROUP [Line1]
( NAME = N'File1', FILENAME = N'C:Data_.It',SIZE = 102MB),
( NAME =...
2021-10-18 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers