SSMS 2016& Azure SQL DBs
When using the latest version of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) there is a small but handy little feature that...
2016-10-11 (first published: 2016-09-27)
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All About SQL
Azure SQL Data warehouse
For this blog post I want to show you the steps required to setup an Azure SQL Data warehouse and...
2016-09-21
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SSMS Keeps Crashing
It is quite frustrating when SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) randomly crashes, all too often for my liking. If you have...
2016-09-20
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Azure IaaS Premium Storage Test
I thought I would share the output of some DiskSpd tests that I conducted on Azure VMs that ultimately will...
2016-09-19
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Restoring Azure SQL Database
A major benefit of Azure SQL Database (PaaS) is the fact that Microsoft manages the backups – it’s great because recovering...
2016-09-23 (first published: 2016-09-16)
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More PowerShell for the Azure World
The collection of Azure SQL Database cmdlets can be found at – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt574084.aspx. There are alot, however I tend to use...
2016-09-15
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PowerShell to create Azure SQL DBs
Recently I have been creating many Azure SQL databases via the portal where I started to find it quite tedious. So...
2016-09-14
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DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
Well, with the name “blobeater” it was about time I did another post on CHECKDB. This time I want to...
2016-09-14 (first published: 2016-09-13)
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Query Performance Insight
It is really easy getting insight into Query performance within your Azure SQL DB. I think Microsoft have done a...
2016-09-12
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DBCC HELP
I was going through some online courses and came across Erin Stellato’s Course on DBCC commands.http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/new-course-understanding-and-using-dbcc-commands/ I learnt something new!...
2016-09-09
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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