I Escaped from a SQL Server Service Pack Nightmare
I hope you take backups or have a recovery plan in place before a SQL Server service pack upgrade, if...
2017-04-24
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I hope you take backups or have a recovery plan in place before a SQL Server service pack upgrade, if...
2017-04-24
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Imagine this scenario, you are a database professional at your place of business and you look after a mountain of SQL...
2017-04-12
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday entry hosted by Koen Verbeeck (http://sqlkover.com/t-sql-tuesday-89-invitation-the-times-they-are-a-changing/), a blog post about how we feel about the ever...
2017-04-11
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I want to show you how I went from having multiple single SQL databases in Azure to a database elastic...
2017-04-04
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A quick video clip where I show two things. Firstly I show how since SQL Server 2014 SP1+ the snapshot...
2017-04-01
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A very quick post for today, I was navigating my way through the Azure portal within my SQL databases section...
2017-03-28
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I have never been to SQLBits (https://sqlbits.com/) before (due to budgets) but I am really looking forward to attending which...
2017-03-27
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Note: This post contains a video clip where I show quirky behaviour of the scripted offline task. Personally I rarely...
2017-03-24
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A non-technical post but something I have been asked about few times so I thought that I would put pen...
2017-03-22
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TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) encrypts the data files at rest but don’t forget that it also encrypts your backup file...
2017-03-20
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By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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