Advice I Like: Examining My Past Self
If you are not embarrassed by your past self, you have probably not grown up yet. – from Excellent Advice for Living While I’d like to think most of...
2025-05-02
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DevOps Day – Atlanta
No tour this year, but Redgate does have a few DevOps events scheduled. I’m hoping for more, and the first one for me this year is Atlanta. You can...
2025-05-01
26 reads
SQL Server Budgets: How to Justify Cost to Management
Ever tried to request SQL Server funding from the CFO? Your systems, your data, your customer experience – they all rely on that “invisible” database engine humming along behind...
2025-05-01
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Index Maintenance Can Change NORECOMPUTE Settings
I had a customer recently ask about a change in one of their constraints on production, where a new option appeared when they went to deploy some changes from...
2025-04-30
144 reads
So You Think You Should Get a Radio
This is not database related, so if you’re not interested in hearing about something besides SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DevOps, community or data management in general, time to move on....
2025-04-30
33 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to be speaking there, and glad to be going back. I’ve missed a number of the...
2025-04-29
65 reads
Updating SSMS is Easy (w/ v21)
I’ve been using the SSMS preview for v21. This is the next evolution of SSMS, where the VS shell is finally being updated. For many of us, SSMS has...
2025-04-28
143 reads
Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I explained how you can call a Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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Master SQL Server Query Tuning in Just Two Days! Online Live Training – June 17 – 18, 2025
I’m excited to announce that on June 17 – 18, 2025, I’ll be running a special Online Live Training event focused entirely on SQL Server Query Tuning! This is...
2025-04-28
37 reads
Testing for End of Month in PowerShell
This is one of those blog posts you write so that 2 years later, you can look it up to remind yourself how to do something.
I found myself needing...
2025-05-14 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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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
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Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
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attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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BIT_COUNT II
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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