Over the years, I’ll admit, SQL Server has come a long way in making life easier for database administrators and with each version it keeps getting better and better....
2025-09-08 (first published: 2025-08-19)
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I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates HammerDB benchmarking for SQL Server using Docker. If you’ve ever needed to run TPC-C or...
2025-09-06
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Don’t reserve your kindest praise for a person until their eulogy. Tell them while they are alive when it makes a difference to them. Write it in a letter...
2025-09-05
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From where I stand, the decision between Cosmos DB and a traditional SQL database often wants to be chosen between a sports car and a reliable sedan. Both will...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-18)
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I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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As part of a demo recently I was adding a default value to a new column with a simple DEFAULT and a value. Under the covers this creates a...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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I want to talk about a fairly new product that you may not be aware of: Azure IoT Operations, which GA’d last November (it was first announced at Ignite...
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-19)
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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In a tech landscape dominated by distributed systems, serverless architectures, and real-time analytics, one might assume that SQL, a language born in the 1970s, would be fading into obscurity....
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Had an incredible time at DevUp in St. Louis this weekend! This conference gets better and better each year and draws in some incredible folks from all over the...
2025-08-29 (first published: 2025-08-08)
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By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
By ChrisJenkins
Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
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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