SQL Reserved vCores
Have you ever heard of SQL Reserved vCores? Well I never until recently. With this concept you have the ability...
2018-08-16
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All About SQL
Azure SQL DW – Query Labels
Using a query label in Azure SQL DW (Data Warehouse) can be a really handy technique to track queries via...
2018-08-14
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Backups
Just because the cloud movement is strong doesn’t mean the end of “DBA’s”, it does mean a change in skills...
2018-08-07
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SQL Server – Blocking a Truncate
The truncate option is fast and efficient but did you know that it takes a certain lock where you could...
2018-07-31
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PsPing your Azure SQL Server
PsPing tool is part of the sysinternals PsTools download found – ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psping) This is the tool of choice when wanting to...
2018-07-23
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SQL Agent for Azure SQL Database? Not quite
The following post shows my preferred way to automate / schedule some code against my Azure SQL Database. No it is...
2018-07-16 (first published: 2018-07-09)
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools – Moving Databases
If you read official Microsoft documentation about naming conventions for your SQL elastic pools, it is hard to find any...
2018-07-09 (first published: 2018-07-02)
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SQL Server 2017 – SELECT INTO [A SPECIFIC FILEGROUP]
Forget about Adaptive Query Processing for a minute, what other feature have I been waiting for? SELECT INTO a specific...
2018-06-19
584 reads
Azure SQL DB – Login failed for user NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON.
Now that I have your attention with a powerful title how about some context? It is quite common to get...
2018-06-26 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Azure SQL Database – Stairway Series
Hello all – I am excited to announce that I will be doing a Stairway series on Azure SQL Database hosted...
2018-06-13
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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