Worldwide Operating System Market Share for October 2009
Ars Technica has a good post up showing that Windows 7, (which has been out for two weeks) has already...
2009-11-07
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Blog Posts
Geek of the Week
I made geek of the week. I’m sorry, but I’m excited by that. I’m very proud to be a geek....
2009-11-06
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Great Post on Parallel vs.. Series SSIS
Mike Davis, Author and consultant extraordinaire recently posted a great new take on parallel vs. series SSIS packages. Some interesting...
2009-11-06
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Identity Issues
Have you ever received the following Error when developing your ETL or working with data cleanup?
Msg 544, Level 16, State...
2009-11-06
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Montreal as a City State: Can a DBA Go Beyond their Workplace to Provoke Change in their Region?
I am very impressed with Michel David’s work, and openly endorse much of his great piece of work at MontrealCityState.ca...
2009-11-06
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OFF-TOPIC: Surviving, Missing Folks, Glad I'm Home
I certainly wish circumstances were different and I would have been able to attend the PASS Summit this week. I...
2009-11-06
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PASS Summit 2009 Day 3
The day started off with a mixed bag. First we had an honestly tearful farewell with Wayne Snyder saying goodbye to...
2009-11-06
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Tampa Code Camp
Looking forward to a great Tamp Code Camp tomorrow. My first code camp. I’ve had some great experiences at the...
2009-11-06
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PASS Conference 2009 Oddities and Curiosities
Down on the docks in Seattle there's a shop of oddities and curiosities where one can find things like a...
2009-11-05
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Let the Learning Begin
Finally time for the sessions to begin after a day and a half in Seattle being overwhelmed by the people...
2009-11-05
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
BIT_COUNT II
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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