SQL Server Backups on AWS RDS
One of the things I love the most about Platform as a Service offerings is the fact that it makes it so I don’t have to do silly things...
2020-07-09 (first published: 2020-06-29)
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Blog Posts
Backup On-Premise SQL Server to Azure BLOB Storage
SQL Server has given us the option to backup our databases directly to Azure BLOB storage for a while now but it’s not something that I’ve had all that...
2020-07-08 (first published: 2020-06-22)
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Daily Coping 8 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-08
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I created a table and SQL created a schema and a user.
Demo first and then I’ll explain what happened. First thing I did was run this script: CreateUsers.bat It’s a quick ... Continue reading
2020-07-08 (first published: 2020-06-22)
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Speaking at the Edmonton PASS user group on 16 July 2020
A short post this week, to let you know that I’ll be presenting a brand new session to the Edmonton PASS user group (EDMPASS) next Thursday. It will be...
2020-07-08
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Collecting custom parameters/variables for Azure Data Factory deployment
(2020-June-22) It's a noble act to develop a very cool database solution that will bring value to your customers. In addition to this, you can help...
2020-07-07 (first published: 2020-06-22)
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Daily Coping 7 Jul 2020
I’ve 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...
2020-07-07
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Management Studio Drag & Drop Column Names
Continuing on my recent trend of Management Studio tips, here is another that could save you a few minutes. In today’s scenario, we need to write a select statement...
2020-07-07
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Publish ADF from code to further environments
Struggling with #ADF deployment? adf_publish branch doesn’t suit your purposes? Don’t have skills with PowerShell? I have good news for you. There is a new tool in the market. It’s a task for...
2020-07-07
23 reads
Spark .NET - Spark ML TF-IDF
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Spark is awesome, .NET is awesome, machine learning (ML) is awesome, so what could be better than using .NET to write ML...
2020-07-07
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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...
Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
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