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2018-11-16
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Blog Posts
Learning New Skills
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #108 prompt by Malathi Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Microsoft Professional Program vs Microsoft Certification
When learning new technologies many people will go towards training courses (in person or online) but many also go for...
2018-11-15
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Monitor Database Offline Events
Hopefully, a database being taken offline is a known event and not a surprise. Occasionally there are gremlins, in the form of users with too many permissions, that tend...
2018-11-15
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T-SQL Tuesday – Non-SQL Server Technologies
So, this month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is to think about a non-SQL Server technology that we want to learn.
For me,...
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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TSQL Tuesday #108 – Learning to Learn
G’day,
One attribute that I think is more relevant today than ever is to have a broad base of skills with...
2018-11-15
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Azure SQL Database – Fixing My Scaling Failure
This is kind of a follow up from my last blog post about a scale down request issue. (https://blobeater.blog/2018/11/07/azure-sql-database-aborting-scale-request/) I...
2018-11-14
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Copying Individual Tables with dbatools
@SQLMonkeyNYC asked on Twitter this morning:
#sqlhelp Does anyone have a product that will back up a single table and restore it to another database? Thanks in advance!!
— The SQL...
2018-11-14
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: DATEADD()
We are now in the home stretch of the long-running series about dates and times in SQL Server and Azure...
2018-11-14
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Filtered Indexes in SQL Server
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-05)
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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
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