Data Warehousing Tip #7 – How I build a time dimension
In this article I’m going to show you how I build my time dimensions. There are lots of different ways...
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-04)
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Blog Posts
Database context and compatibility level
To add onto yesterday’s post about which cardinality estimator (CE) your query will use, there’s an additional complexity. This specifically...
2019-02-26
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One Peril of Database Proliferation
By now many of us have upgraded from SQL Server 2008R2 and we’re on the “regular Cumulative Updates” train now. For the rest, it’ll (hopefully) happen soon. And since...
2019-02-26
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Quick tip: Speeding up deletes from SSIS execution log
If you have SQL Server Integration Services installed on your server, and you left the default configurations a table named...
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-11)
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Searching Complex JSON Data
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
It's...
2019-02-26
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Searching Complex JSON Data
Watch this week’s video on YouTubeComputed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of...
2019-02-26
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Searching Complex JSON Data
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
It's...
2019-02-26
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The Reader’s Choice Awards are Taking Nominations
If you’re using products, you might want to nominate a vendor or product for a database tool that helps you....
2019-02-26
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Undercover TV – Sean McCown Joins Us For a Session on Beginning Powershell SMO
In this episode, Adrian looks at some of the new features of the Undercover Inspector1.3 and special guest, Sean McCown...
2019-02-26
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What Does the Undocumented UNCOMPRESS Function Do?
(last updated: 2019-02-26 @ 18:35 EST / 2019-02-26 @ 23:35 UTC )
IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) can be quite helpful. It...
2019-02-26
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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