Best Hidden Feature in SQL Server 2019
With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most likely...
2018-09-26
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Blog Posts
Book Review – Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE
Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)...
2018-09-26
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CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 2 – Parametrization of Dynamic SQL
Intro
In the last blog I showed how important statistics are for CCI bulk load even on small tables. This time...
2018-09-26
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Cloud ETL for the Modern Enterprise Workshop
We are introducing a new workshop focused on Cloud ETL. ETL, or Extract, Transfer and Load, is nothing new and...
2018-09-26
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Coming Soon to Minnesota...Lincoln...and Seattle!!!
It's that time of year when SQLSaturdays start to slow down (in the U.S. anyway) as we march towards Summit...
2018-09-26
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Faking Temporal Tables with Triggers
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #106 prompt by Steve Jones. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-09-26 (first published: 2018-09-11)
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I’m Giving Four Free Sessions in October!
I’ve got FOUR sessions coming up in October. These sessions will each be 30 minutes. Redgate Sessions Wed, Oct 3, 9AM PT / 12PM ET: How to Lead DBAs...
2018-09-26
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My Experiences Tech Editing Pro SQL Server on Linux
The Opportunity
Earlier this year I received an email from Jonathan Gennick, an editor at Apress books. The subject of the...
2018-09-26
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My Experiences Tech Editing Pro SQL Server on Linux
The Opportunity Earlier this year I received an email from Jonathan Gennick, an editor at Apress books. The subject of the email was “Tech edit a book” and he...
2018-09-26
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sqlhelp: limit the x-axis of a geometry line graph
I have a #sqlhelp question that requires some code. So hey, blog post time! TL;DR: the geometry::STGeomFromText graph provides too wide...
2018-09-26
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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