Azure SQL Championship
There is no doubt that this is a time when we all have to be extra aware and work towards keeping our skills aligned with market needs. During this...
2020-10-13 (first published: 2020-10-07)
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Blog Posts
Checking your dumps!!!
No, No, not those dumps: SQL Server Memory dumps!! Recently, I was on Slack and wondered into the #firstresponderkit channel. I am a big fan of all the First...
2020-10-13 (first published: 2020-10-06)
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Daily Coping 13 Oct 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...
2020-10-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #131 – Database Analogies
This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on...
2020-10-13
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Daily Coping 12 Oct 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...
2020-10-12
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Renaming SQL Server Databases
Video walkthrough of renaming or “flipping” databases to minimize down time during a refresh. Most commonly when moving a copy from prod to dev. My Pluralsight courses for new...
2020-10-12
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Row Numbers in Azure Data Factory Data Flows
(2020-Oct-05) Adding a row number to your dataset could a trivial task. Both ANSI and Spark SQL have the row_number() window function that can enrich your data with a unique...
2020-10-12 (first published: 2020-10-05)
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Video–Virtual Summit Speaker Portal
There’s a lot of stress in prepping for conferences and talks. I’m used to it, but whenever something is new, I get a little nervous. How are the AV...
2020-10-12 (first published: 2020-10-07)
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2020-10-11
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2020-10-11
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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