SQL Homework – November 2019 – SSMS built in reports
Time for some homework again. I know Pass Summit is this week so you may be a bit busy but ... Continue reading
2019-11-04
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Stored Procedures vs Functions vs Views
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server has several ways to store queries for later executions. This makes developers happy because it allows them to follow DRY principles: Don’t Repeat Yourself....
2019-11-04 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Post Event Speaker Survey
One of the follow up items I have from the event was to poll speakers on what hotel they used (see my previous post). In jotting down some notes...
2019-11-04
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SSIS Scaleout: Cannot open certificate store on the machine
When attempting to connect a worker node to the current Master node of a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Scaleout, for on-prem SQL Servers, if you receive the error:...
2019-11-04 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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Teams in SQL Clone and SQL Provision
SQL Clone v4 is out, and the big change is the addition of the Teams feature. I guess technically this is just for SQL Clone, which is included in...
2019-11-04
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You Are A Coder
So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...
2019-11-04
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Last Week Reading (2019-11-03)
This week I’m offering you many posts about Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory and how to design reliable Azure applications. Have a great week also for those of you...
2019-11-03
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Designated Hotel
Almost every year we select an “official” hotel for the event. For those coming in who don’t know the area it’s a way to avoid figuring out what is...
2019-11-03
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Back to school
Hey, I realize that future we need to know Database system, No SQL and Big Data. with that as things are moving to machine learning and AI system which...
2019-11-02
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Why I’m Running For The PASS Board – Again
Hello, it’s amazing to me how fast the past couple of years have gone by as I’ve served on the PASS Board. It has been a journey that has...
2019-11-02
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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?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
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