Last Week Reading (2018-12-23)
The Christmas is coming. But before we start the festive time and sit down to the Christmas Eve dinner – a...
2018-12-23
191 reads
Blog Posts
Call for Speakers for Orlando Code Camp Closes Jan 18, 2019 & We Need SQL Speakers
Orlando Code Camp is March 30. 2019 in Lake Mary (same location as SQLSaturday Orlando) and we’re hoping to have...
2018-12-22
255 reads
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2 (Inventory Management)
Advent of Code 2018 – Day 2
As I explained in yesterday’s post, I’m participating in this year’s Advent of Code challenge,...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-04)
1,836 reads
Azure Portal Enhancements – Switching Accounts
More and more I am impressed on the Azure Portal. Microsoft continues to make enhancements to the user interface (UI)...
2018-12-21
250 reads
Database Fundamentals #20: Using the JOIN Operator, Inner Join
It is entirely possible to try to JOIN two tables on almost any field, as long as the two data...
2018-12-21 (first published: 2018-12-03)
2,521 reads
File Maintenance – Cleaning Up Old Files
We have all run into a need or a desire to clean up old stale files from the file system, whether it be to remove old backup files or...
2018-12-21
24 reads
Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before...
2018-12-21
178 reads
Fun Time Friday: Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday
Black Friday (No,not Shopping!), Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the last Friday before Christmas (Today!) in the United Kingdom.It is the most...
2018-12-21
11 reads
MongoDB – DBs and Configurations
Continue to our last discussion , today we will be discussing on MongoDB default databases and more… When you install mongoDB...
2018-12-21
217 reads
Select-AzureRmProfile : The term ‘Select-AzureRmProfile’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program
I got a chance to work with PowerShell automation script to automate the login process. In the script, the profile...
2018-12-21
257 reads
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