Developing Presence
At SQL Saturday Nashville, I didn’t do a good job explaining the concept of presence. This is in reference to...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-14)
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Blog Posts
Friend of Redgate 2019
This year starts with a good news:
Here is the list of people in the directory.
Stay tuned!
2019-01-25
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Memory Grants part 6: Memory used in aggregate functions (Min/Max/etc)
So far in this series, I’ve been focusing on the Sort operator. It’s pretty easy for demos since I can...
2019-01-25
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Microsoft Update Catalog
In today’s world of database administrations, there are a plethora of tools and resources that can be available to utilize...
2019-01-25
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Speaking at SQLBits 2019
Speaking at SQLBits 2019!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLBits on March 2nd 2019! It’s been a...
2019-01-25
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Speaking at SQLBits 2019
Speaking at SQLBits 2019!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQLBits on March 2nd 2019! It’s been a goal of mine to speak at SQLBits for...
2019-01-25
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
Watch this week’s video on YouTube.
While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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SSDT: /p:AllowIncompatiblePlatform, what platforms are compatible?
Sometimes you don't have the perfect development environment for SQL Server, sometimes you deploy to things like SQL Azure and want to test locally, for various reasons it is...
2019-01-25
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SSDT: /p:AllowIncompatiblePlatform, what platforms are compatible?
Sometimes you don’t have the perfect development environment for SQL Server, sometimes you deploy to things like SQL Azure and...
2019-01-25
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SSDT: /p:AllowIncompatiblePlatform, what platforms are compatible?
Sometimes you don’t have the perfect development environment for SQL Server, sometimes you deploy to things like SQL Azure and want to test locally, for various reasons it is...
2019-01-25
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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
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...
BIT_COUNT II
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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