Do You Understand Microsoft Licenses?
I had an email from a friend recently asking about a licensing question pertaining to Microsoft. It reminded me of...
2008-10-09
541 reads
Tulsa TechFest Draws a Crowd of Over 500
The annual Tulsa TechFest (Tulsa, OK) had over 500 attendees today (Thursday), and is expecting another 500+ attendees on Friday....
2008-10-09
443 reads
Meeting My Goal
Last year I was talking about goals and changes for the site as I was negotiating my continued employment with...
2008-10-09
841 reads
Validating text data. A few techniques.
/*datafile used in the SQL */
DECLARE @String VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @String = 'When you are starting out to validate text input, perhaps to clean...
2008-10-09
1,103 reads
Project Management Management - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-09
931 reads
Tethering vs Air Card & Other Miscellaneous Phone Thoughts
I've been using a Blackberry Curve for a while and I'm been entirely happy with it. Great phone, great battery...
2008-10-08
533 reads
Take the Plunge - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-08
391 reads
Red Gate SQL Response Review is up
Full Disclosure: I did receive a trial version of the software and payment for the review. I am also a...
2008-10-08
962 reads
Do You Love PASS?
Recently Tony Davis posted some thoughts (almost a rant) about his opinions of PASS, and there is a great follow...
2008-10-07
698 reads
Database Administration Librarian
If I cannot find a book or info in a library, I always go to a librarian for advice and...
2008-10-07
616 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