2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2021-12-30
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2021 a year in review
No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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When You Can’t Change the Connected Git Repo on ADF
I was working on an Azure Data Factory project for a client who is new to ADF, and there was a miscommunication about the new Git Repo to be...
2022-01-10 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Queries that Fail and How to find Them
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
The post Queries that Fail and How to find...
2021-12-29
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Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
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2021-12-29
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Distributed SQL
A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...
2022-01-07 (first published: 2021-12-29)
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And that’s a wrap
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make sure you are vaccinated...
2021-12-29
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Daily Coping 29 Dec 2021
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...
2021-12-29
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A (big) SQLPackage caveat
Context I had a request to help with a database from a third-party vendor which uses a lot of FullText-Search (FTS) catalogs. I have to say that I just...
2021-12-29
16 reads
Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.
The post Statistics Auditing to make you Omniscient first appeared...
2021-12-28
19 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