Here’s a little error that I stumbled across the other day when trying to migrate the data files of an Availability Group secondary node onto a nice new SAN....
2019-06-06
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Scenario:
We need to configure an existing legacy application from an external vendor to talk to our new SQL Server 2017 Availability Group, which spans multiple subnets. In the end,...
2019-06-05
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2019-06-05
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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...
2019-06-05
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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...
2019-06-05
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By Steve Bolton …………In the last two installments of this series of amateur self-tutorials (apart from the Fisher Information article, which I deliberately published out of order), I introduced...
2019-06-05 (first published: 2019-05-17)
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Migration is nothing but moving a databases from...
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2019-06-05
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One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are...
2019-06-05 (first published: 2019-05-17)
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Few days ago I received a request to restore a dozen of tables because someone have deleted more data than it was supposed. I immediately thought about dbatools for...
2019-06-04 (first published: 2019-05-17)
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While I know I don't utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I'm at least aware that those features exist.
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2019-06-04
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By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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