Setting Up Power BI Row Level Security
In this webinar I discussed designing a Power BI model to plan for either a simple or complex row level security scenario.
2019-06-25
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Blog Posts
Speaking at PASS Summit 2019
I am proud to announce that I am presenting at this year’s PASS Summit conference, to be held in Seattle WA from November 5th to 8th at the Washington...
2019-06-25
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Weekly reading #19
Good afternoon folks! It is Monday Tuesday already after a long weekend in Poland. I do not know what temperature you have but here we are like in a...
2019-06-25
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Working with Arrays in Azure Data Factory
(2019-June-06) I remember I had a professor at my university who very often would encourage his students to learn and get more experienced with simple things first. Learn the basics...
2019-06-25 (first published: 2019-06-07)
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Azure Cosmos DB – Graph DB
Using Graph DB is a good way to show relationships between entities (more specifically a vertex and edges). This is why you would use this approach over classic SQL...
2019-06-24
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Azure SQL DB Maxdop Hint
I had a good question from JP via a comment on my blog about whether you can use the MAXDOP query hint in Azure SQL Database. The answer? Yes....
2019-06-24
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Basic SQL Server Configuration Help for Involuntary DBAs
After my presentation at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics conference, I had a information security professional stop by to ask a few questions. He’s in the position where...
2019-06-24 (first published: 2019-06-10)
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Implicit Conversion Insights with XE
Seldom does a DBA have the opportunity to get out in front of infrequent or random errors such as implicit conversions. More often than not, it is the privilege...
2019-06-24 (first published: 2019-06-05)
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Modern migration tour 2019 – Guatemala
SQL Server 2008 end of support for SQL Server 2008 is fast approaching, so it’s time to take flight and build your migration plan. As announced during the...
2019-06-24
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Power BI Monthly Digest – June 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-06-24
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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