Horror… sort of
You must read this post from Tim Ford to understand why I might do this on my technical blog. But...
2010-01-11
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New England Data Camp v2/SQL Saturdy #34 Update
The second annual New England Data Camp is shaping up to one excellent event. We’ve put together a great set...
2010-01-11
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Permon Counters Missing Windows 64 Bit SQL Server 32 Bit
For reasons beyond the scope of this post I have an environment where I have Windows 2003 R2 64 bit...
2010-01-11
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More Laptop Issues
My laptop died on Dec 1, 2009. I was on vacation, but on Dec 2 I called Toshiba (I have...
2010-01-11
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That DARN TOMCAT
Here is a challenge that had me stumped for several days. Besides for working with Reporting Services on a day...
2010-01-11
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PASS Update #22 (Speaker Bureau – Call for Comments)
One of my big projects this year is to build a speaker bureau, so in this post I’m going to...
2010-01-11
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Kevin Cox from SQLCAT Presenting at the Denver SQL Server User’s Group On January 21, 2010
Kevin Cox, who is part of the SQLCAT Team at Microsoft, will be giving the presentation at this month’s Denver...
2010-01-11
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House of Commons Justice Committee Related to The European Union's Data Protection-Retention Directives
Just this past week on Tuesday afternoon (a link to video of Parliament online, please forward to about half way through),...
2010-01-10
2,216 reads
Professional Communications
This past week I had the opportunity to have lunch with a vendor at his clients’ site. As a part...
2010-01-10
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GodMode - in Windows 7
It's very interesting if you create new folder with name:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Try it and you will find a lot of stuff there...
2010-01-10
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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