(2022-July-25) I really liked reading printed PC Magazines (https://www.pcmag.com/) or Computerworld newspapers (https://www.computerworld.com/) when I was in school. Those magazines pictured IT System or Database Admins as a special group...
2022-08-01 (first published: 2022-07-25)
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Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Part Three: The Cure
Foreword
In the first two parts, we have seen why the Scalar functions (UDFs) are a problem for the...
2022-07-29 (first published: 2022-07-24)
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I had a great talk today at SQL Saturday New Jersey 2022 on DevOps and databases. Good crowd and good questions. Got caught in a spotlight picture as well:...
2022-07-23
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-22
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-21
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A while back (6 years ago 😲) I talked about how you can change the behavior of SSMS so that ... Continue reading
2022-07-21
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-20
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If you have excel data, or user-entered data, you have likely experienced frustration from repeatedly seeing the error message below upon hitting “Close & Apply” or refreshing your data...
2022-08-10 (first published: 2022-07-19)
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I mentioned in my New Database Job – The 90 Day Plan blog how I have a trick for storing index usage stats up until close to the next reboot...
2022-08-10 (first published: 2022-07-19)
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It is that time again. This time coming to you from a Mcdonald’s so my son can get out some energy, and it is 105 degrees outside. This will...
2022-07-19
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A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
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A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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