Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
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Blog Posts
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
5 reads
Your Quick Introduction to Extended Events in Analysis Services
XEvents is a power tool in SQL Server. While it may still be rather immature in the world of SSAS, it still has a great deal of benefit and...
2021-01-01
9 reads
Daily Coping 31 Dec 2020
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...
2020-12-31
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End of an Era – SQL PASS and Lessons learned
Most of my blog is filled with posts related to PASS in some way. Events, various volunteering opportunities, keynote blogging, this or that…With the demise of the organization, I...
2020-12-31 (first published: 2020-12-22)
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Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups
This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.
The post Firewall Ports You Need to...
2020-12-31
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Hope!
2020 was a rough year. We’ve had friends and family leave us. Jobs lost. Health scares a plenty and that’s ... Continue reading
2020-12-31
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Logging the history of my past SQL Saturday presentations
(2020-Dec-31) PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) is the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. On December 17, 2020 PASS announced...
2020-12-31
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Using Azure Durable Functions with Azure Data Factory - HTTP Long Polling
(2020-Dec-21) While working with Azure Functions that provide a serverless environment to run my computer program code, I’m still struggling to understand how it actually works. Yes, I admit, there...
2020-12-31 (first published: 2020-12-21)
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2020 was certainly a year on the calendar
According to my blog post schedule, this is the final post of the year. It’s nothing more than a coincidence, but making it through the worst year in living...
2020-12-30
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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...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server Enum Implementation: A...
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