When the query plan hash is deceptive
When you’re querying the plan cache, you need to know the four primary objects: the query hash, query plan hash,...
2019-01-17
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Blog Posts
Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps made for a terrible looking blog.Fortunately I found that...
2019-01-16
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Butter in My Coffee and Low Carb Tortillas: Keto Day 2
Hello Dear Reader, just a quick check in, I had originally planned to blog yesterday. However, screen shots of apps...
2019-01-16
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Data Modeling Webcast Rescheduled
Unfortunately, due to a last minute scheduling conflict on my side, we’ve had to reschedule the data modeling webcast with...
2019-01-16
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Data Warehousing Tip #3 – Build thin slice
My third data warehousing tip is to build thin slice. Deliver subsets of valuable functionality. Get feedback and buy in,...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-07)
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Database modelling in a post-SSMS world: dbForge Studio
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) will no longer include the visual Database Diagrams...
2019-01-16
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Inspector V1.3 hotfix
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow...
2019-01-16
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Short Circuiting Your Session
It isn’t very often that one would consider a short circuit to be a desired outcome. In SQL Server we...
2019-01-16 (first published: 2019-01-05)
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Watch all my free PASS Summit recordings– and more videos at Pass.org
A magical thing happened this week in the SQL Community Slack (it’s free to join, by the way, sign up here). In the midst of a discussion about the...
2019-01-16
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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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...
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Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
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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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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