Book Review: Lights Out
I have always been interested in GE since I was a kid. My best friend in high school had a parent that worked for the company for a bit...
2021-09-27
47 reads
A Successful Blogger on Making the Switch
For Kyla Marie Charles, switching to WordPress.com opened up possibilities for her website and brand that she never thought was possible.
2021-09-27
45 reads
Login Timeouts
I was recently approached at work about a company that was seeing tons of timeouts in SQL Server. I was asked how to troubleshoot this. There are lots of...
2021-09-27
6 reads
Login Timeouts
I was recently approached at work about a company that was seeing tons of timeouts in SQL Server. I was asked how to troubleshoot this. There are lots of...
2021-10-06 (first published: 2021-09-27)
580 reads
Wednesday Webinar with Pavilion – SQL Server Performance
I’m thrilled to announce a new webinar with Pavilion Data for this Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at 10:00am Pacific time entitled “Achieve 3x SQL Server Performance While Doubling VM...
2021-09-27
106 reads
Daily Coping 27 Sep 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...
2021-09-27
43 reads
Setting Permissions on Files Inside a Container for SQL Server
This post will walk you through setting file permissions on database files copied into a container. The SQL Server process sqlservr running in containers runs as the non-privileged user...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-25)
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Daily Coping 24 Sept 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...
2021-09-24
47 reads
Using environment variable files for SQL Server in containers
There are a whole bunch of environment variables that can be used to configure SQL Server when run in a Docker container. You can check out the full list...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-24)
507 reads
How to Design Backups in SQL Server?
The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) are basic concepts related to the information to be recovered and the time that it will take to recover....
2021-09-24
16 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