Three Ways to Create a Temp Table
Taking it back to SQL 101 today because I recently saw something that floored me. I’m a big fan of temp tables. I use ‘em all over the place...
2020-06-23
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Blog Posts
Three Ways to Create a Temp Table
Taking it back to SQL 101 today because I recently saw something that floored me. I’m a big fan of temp tables. I use ’em all over the place...
2020-06-23
37,270 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #127 – Non SQL Tips and Tricks, Referencing Multiple PowerShell Array Elements
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation is from Ken Fisher and he’s asking about non-SQL tips and tricks. This had me thinking for a bit and then something popped into...
2020-06-23 (first published: 2020-06-09)
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Azure Platform Series: How to setup Azure Cloud Shell
This blog post will be a series on the Azure Platform and some things we can use it for. Background: I run a consultancy company – and sometimes I...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-06)
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Backup your SQL instances configurations to GIT with dbatools – Part 2 – Add parallelism
We have seen how we can export and save the results to a folder and commit them to a GIT repository on my last blog post Backup your SQL...
2020-06-22 (first published: 2020-06-04)
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Being seen and why PASS helped
One of my colleagues/friends read my earlier blog post on the future of PASS and said he was not aware that being seen as a minority person was among...
2020-06-22
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Prevent the next data breach – a MinionWare snippet
Dozens of major data breaches have occurred in the last fifteen years. Each one illustrates the massive cost – both in dollars and in reputation – of lax security....
2020-06-22
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Prevent the next data breach – a MinionWare snippet
Dozens of major data breaches have occurred in the last fifteen years. Each one illustrates the massive cost – both in dollars and in reputation – of lax security....
2020-06-22
14 reads
Prevent the next data breach – a MinionWare snippet
Dozens of major data breaches have occurred in the last fifteen years. Each one illustrates the massive cost – both in dollars and in reputation – of lax security....
2020-06-22
9 reads
Prevent the next data breach – a MinionWare snippet
Dozens of major data breaches have occurred in the last fifteen years. Each one illustrates the massive cost – both in dollars and in reputation – of lax security....
2020-06-22
13 reads
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...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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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