Finding a Work-Life Balance
Like most everyone who works hard in our industry, I’ve run into more than a few conflicts trying to balance...
2009-02-25
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devLINK Call for Speakers to End March 13, 2009
If you are interested in speaking at the devLINK Technical Conference in Nashville, TN, August 13-15th, you need to get...
2009-02-25
1,348 reads
Microsoft Starts New Website Focused on IT Pro
Microsoft has introduced a new website (part of Microsoft.com) called Thrive. It is still in its infancy, but its focus...
2009-02-25
1,371 reads
A Cloudy Story
The other day Paul Neilson wrote a simple post making predictions about SQL Server in the Cloud. That got a...
2009-02-25
1,621 reads
Business Is More Than Code
Chris Shaw, owner of SQL Oncall, recently had an issue in his business. Chris provides DBA services on a remote...
2009-02-25
1,651 reads
Next Technical Speaking Seminar is March 14, 2009 in Orlando
I've scheduled another iteration of my Technical Speaking Seminar for March 14, 2009 in Orlando. It's free, and I'm hosting...
2009-02-24
1,478 reads
Excel Malformed File Vulnerability - Remote Code Execution
Today, Microsoft release a security advisory about a new vulnerability in Microsoft Excel. This one affects both PCs and Macs....
2009-02-24
1,808 reads
Determining if a Server Principal Owns Database Objects
This question comes up a lot in the forums: "How do I know if the login owns any objects?" Usually...
2009-02-24
7,443 reads
The Race to 50 (Prius Update)
When the weather is cold, the Prius performs much worse (relatively) than it does when it’s warm. It makes sense...
2009-02-24
1,798 reads
Kindle Update - Samples
I like being able to view samples on my Kindle. It's one of the very neat features of the Kindle...
2009-02-24
1,655 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...
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