Using Data Compare with Recent Data Only
This is a post that looks at how to compare data changes in recent data. A customer recently asked me about looking at a table, and choosing specific data...
2021-02-16 (first published: 2021-02-08)
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Blog Posts
About Friendship and Using Optional Stored Procedure parameters in Azure Data Factory
(2021-Feb-07) "You've Got a Friend in Me" is a well-known song written by Randy Newman and featured in one of Disney's animated films. If I hadn't had a chance...
2021-02-15 (first published: 2021-02-07)
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Daily Coping 15 Feb 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...
2021-02-15
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Exploring a Docker container’s file system
There are three ways to get into bash in a docker container: docker exec -it containername bash docker exec -it containername “bash” docker exec -it containername /bin/bash Once you...
2021-02-15
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How to Prep a SQL Server Availability Group for VM-Level DR Replication
If you have a SQL Server Availability Group (AG) and the VMs are being replicated to a disaster recovery site (cloud or on-prem), chances are the networking topology is...
2021-02-15 (first published: 2021-02-08)
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Speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group
I will be presenting my session “Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools” this Thursday, February 18th at 2:30 PM Central Time at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group....
2021-02-15
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Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime
In this post, I’m going to show you how to install containerd as the container runtime in a Kubernetes cluster. I will also cover setting the cgroup driver for...
2021-02-14
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ADF, XML objects and XPath in the expression language
When you use ADF, there are two sides to the coin. The first is the data itself that ADF does very well, from moving it from one site to...
2021-02-12
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Daily Coping 12 Feb 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...
2021-02-12
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Published Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services Revealed
I’m super proud to announce that Ben E. Weissman and I have published Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services Revealed available now at Apress and your favorite online book sellers! Buy...
2021-02-12 (first published: 2021-02-05)
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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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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