Vetting the PASS Board of Directors candidates
I've had a pretty heavy involvement in Brent Ozar's interview of Matt Morollo. The reason for my intense activity is he was...
2009-10-16
1,360 reads
SQLSaturday #21 Shirt Snafu!
Thought I’d share a funny story. Way back before SQLSaturday #1 my friend Shawn recommended a local shirt/embroidery vendor, I...
2009-10-16
496 reads
Free E-Book on XSD SQL Server Schema Collections
Whether you like it or not, as a SQL Server DBA or Developer, you will eventually have to learn about...
2009-10-16
555 reads
Dev Days
I heard about the Stackoverflow Dev Days earlier this year and thought it was an interesting idea. We had talked...
2009-10-16
1,156 reads
Backing Up Your Data is Obvious, Or Isn’t It?
Often, when I give presentations on DBA best practices, I make the obvious point that databases need to be regularly...
2009-10-16
490 reads
Book Review: The Deceived
The Deceived by Brett Battles
I haven’t post on any fiction lately, thought it was time to write about something more...
2009-10-15
350 reads
SQLSaturday #21 Is Tomorrow (Oct 17)
I’m writing this in advance because I’ll be busy with all the last minute preparations, but I’m looking forward to...
2009-10-15
289 reads
The PASS Board of Directors Election
There has been some great discussion about the upcoming PASS Board of Directors election over on Brent Ozar’s blog. If...
2009-10-15
1,257 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement
Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...
2009-10-15
616 reads
A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance
1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.
Microsoft's...
2009-10-15
3,402 reads
Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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