I didn't have these in my slides for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, but brought them up the web browser during the presentation. If you're looking at...
2025-06-27 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that...
2025-06-23 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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One of the biggest challenges with monitoring data is managing the volume over time. Lots of bespoke/home-grown solutions don’t do this well, and some commercial products have a gross...
2025-06-09
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Build a Dockerized Todo List RESTful API in C# with GitHub Actions and Azure Container App: A Step-by-Step GuideBuilding scalable, portable, and easy-to-maintain applications has become necessary in today's...
2025-06-08
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Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East conference on cyber scams. How bad is it? Well, according to the Internet Crime Complaint...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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Redgate has been known for many useful tools that are easy to use. We’ve tried to do that in all our point tools. We talk about simplicity all the...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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C++ is a highly versatile language for developing console applications, batch processing, and performance-critical applications. While it has traditionally been less explored for building RESTful APIs, modern libraries like...
2025-06-06
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For a variety of reasons, including your Microsoft MVP activity reports, you might want to summarize your GitHub activity across multiple repos. For contributors to Microsoft open-source docs on GitHub,...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-05)
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Microsoft's unified analytics platform, Fabric, simplifies integration across various tools in Azure by offering seamless authentication and a comprehensive set of features. Although alternatives exist in AWS, GCP, and...
2025-06-18 (first published: 2025-06-05)
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I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here on my blog. Here are the slides that I used for my Quantum Computing and...
2025-06-05
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By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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