T-SQL Tuesday #183: Improving Permission Management
This is my (late) answer to my own invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #183. I was very busy a few weeks ago when the invite when out (glad it was...
2025-03-07 (first published: 2025-02-26)
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Blog Posts
A Quick Test Data Manager Eval with My Database Backup
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and it was a great post. In that one, the sample database Northwind was...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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Picking a Starting Table in Test Data Manager
I wrote about getting the Redgate Test Data Manager set up in 10 minutes before, and a follow up post on using your own backup. One of the things...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2025-02-05)
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Test Data Manager in Under 10 Minutes
Test Data Manager (TDM) is a suite of products from Redgate that make it easy to build dev and test databases in seconds. It’s a nice rewrite of a...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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Build It, Buy It, Cloud It? The IT Decision Puzzle
The Never-Ending Question in IT: Which Approach to Take? As a Consultant, I would typically answer with = it depends! Then a typical conversation starts with an expression of...
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Data Governance: The Invisible AI Accelerator
Introduction Do you remember the effort of tidying up your BI and reporting systems, only to find yourself facing a labyrinth of inconsistent data, missing values, and unclear ownership?...
2025-03-05 (first published: 2025-02-20)
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Join me at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference with a discount code
I’m excited to be speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference this year, which takes place March 31 through April 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will be co-presenting...
2025-03-05 (first published: 2025-02-20)
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Knoxville M365 Community Days Recap
Hello data friends! Had a blast at my first ever M365 Community Day this past weekend! Thank you to all the amazing organizers and sponsors who made it happen,...
2025-03-04
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Azure SQL offerings
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers, and compute tiers that it can get quite confusing when choosing the right option for...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-18)
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Monday Monitor Tips: VLF Alerts
A recent change made to Redgate Monitor to add a new alert for VLF count. This post looks at the change. This is part of a series of posts...
2025-03-03 (first published: 2025-02-24)
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
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A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
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A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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