Monday Monitor Tips: Knowing Your RPO
A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed them a few things from the Estate tab in Redgate Monitor. This post covers a...
2024-10-28 (first published: 2024-10-14)
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Webinar tomorrow: The Role of Databases in the Era of AI
I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow with Rie Merritt from Microsoft. We’ll be talking about some of the sessions that Microsoft has planned for the PASS Data Community Summit as...
2024-10-14
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Spark Connect Dotnet Variant Data Type
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I recently published the latest version of the Spark Connect Dotnet library which includes support for the new Variant data type in Apache Spark 4.0 here....
2024-10-12
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A New Word: Opia
opia – n. the ambiguous intensity of eye contact The entry for this says “so much can be said in a glance, “ which I think is very true....
2024-10-11
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Friday Flyway Tips: Searching a Migration
This was actually a cool tip I saw internally from one of the product managers, when trying to find specific text in a migration. I’ve been working with Flyway...
2024-10-11
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Build Recovery into the Design
It's like disaster recovery (and business continuity) planning is the end-of-term research paper that the professor mentioned on the first day of class, but which most students don't start...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-10)
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dataMinds Connect 2024 – Session Materials
The slides and scripts for my session “Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions” at dataMinds Connect 2024 can be downloaded from GitHub. If you want...
2024-10-10
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Want to Supercharge Your Business? SQL is Your Secret Weapon.
Look, we all know data is king these days. But having mountains of data and actually using it to make your business better are two different things. That's where...
2024-10-10
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What do client diagnostics in Cosmos DB mean?
This topic keeps coming up with my customers so the purpose of this blog post is to keep all the useful information in one post. Think of this post...
2024-10-23 (first published: 2024-10-09)
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Adding Row Numbers to a Query: #SQLNewBlogger
I realized that I hadn’t done much blogging on Window functions in T-SQL, and I’ve done a few presentations, so I decided to round out my blog a bit....
2024-10-09
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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