Query to Email….Well Formatted Email
When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...
2025-04-10
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Simple SQL Server
Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage...
2016-06-01
519 reads
Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage was over. The big deal wasn’t that it didn’t...
2016-06-01
54 reads
File Growths
I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-29)
1,901 reads
File Growths
I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing log files in my post Database Log VLFs. However,...
2016-03-29
24 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on...
2016-03-21
652 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on disk? Am I safe with a 100 GB database...
2016-03-21
25 reads
Multiserver Queries
You can run queries against multiple servers at once, and it’s quite useful for a number of reasons. I use...
2016-03-14
714 reads
Multiserver Queries
Setting up registered servers and practical uses of multiserver queries in SSMS.
2016-03-14
19 reads
Recompile Monitoring using XEvents
Recompiles can be a hidden bottleneck on your server, and it may not be too obvious. I should know, it...
2016-03-17 (first published: 2016-03-07)
1,643 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers