Azure SQL Database pricing
Pricing Azure SQL database is difficult because various database service tier options such as database transaction units (DTU’s), max database size,...
2016-04-22
2,200 reads
James Serra's Blog
Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5),...
2016-04-14
870 reads
Scaling Azure VM’s
There are so many benefits to the cloud, but one of the major features is the ease of use in...
2016-04-05
665 reads
My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We...
2016-03-29
916 reads
Data loading into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a new platform-as-a service (PaaS) that distributes workloads across multiple compute resources, called massively parallel processing (MPP)....
2016-03-23
617 reads
Microsoft Azure Government
I’m sure you are aware of Microsoft Azure, but are you aware there is special version of Azure for U.S....
2016-03-15
710 reads
SQL Server on Linux!
Looks outside: pigs are flying!
In an announcement yesterday, SQL Server will be made available on Linux. The private preview of...
2016-03-08
912 reads
Cross-database queries in Azure SQL Database
A limitation with Azure SQL database has been its inability to do cross-database SQL queries. This has changed with the...
2016-03-02
706 reads
HP Superdome X for high-end OLTP/DW
No, Superdome X is not the name of the stadium where they played in the last Super Bowl. Rather, Superdome...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-24)
1,289 reads
Azure SQL Database security
Life we be so much easier if we could just trust everyone, but since we can’t we need solid security...
2016-02-17
978 reads
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...
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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