Dipping into the Cookie Jar
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O'Neill. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and...
2019-03-12
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Blog Posts
Dipping into the Cookie Jar: T-SQL Tuesday #112
This month our intrepid host for T-SQL Tuesday is Shane O’Neill (b/t). He’s asked us to talk about our cookies....
2019-03-12
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Fix For Using Azure Active Directory to Connect to SQL
Hello! The other day someone was kind enough to get in touch with me to thank me for some post I wrote back last year. For the sake of...
2019-03-12
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Gaps and Islands Across Date Ranges
Watch this week's video on YouTube
In a traditional gaps and islands problem, the goal is to identify groups of continuous data sequences (islands) and groups of data where the...
2019-03-12
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Gaps and Islands Across Date Ranges
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.In a traditional gaps and islands problem, the goal is to identify groups of continuous...
2019-03-12
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Gaps and Islands Across Date Ranges
Watch this week's video on YouTube
In a traditional gaps and islands problem, the goal is to identify groups of continuous data sequences (islands) and groups of data where the...
2019-03-12
31 reads
How to Submit Feedback to Azure Data Studio WITHOUT tweeting.
This is one of those things that doesn’t warrant a blog post; until you talk to three other well-versed data professionals who all had the same confusion. Azure Data...
2019-03-12
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How to Submit Feedback to Azure Data Studio WITHOUT tweeting.
This is one of those things that doesn’t warrant a blog post; until you talk to three other well-versed data professionals who all had the same confusion. Azure Data...
2019-03-12
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How to Submit Feedback to Azure Data Studio WITHOUT tweeting.
This is one of those things that doesn’t warrant a blog post; until you talk to three other well-versed data...
2019-03-12
410 reads
How to Submit Feedback to Azure Data Studio WITHOUT tweeting.
This is one of those things that doesn’t warrant a blog post; until you talk to three other well-versed data professionals who all had the same confusion. Azure Data...
2019-03-12
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
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