Friday Flyway Tips–Quick Command Line Access
One of the things I had to do recently in a demo was access the Git command line. The way I did it impressed a customer, so I put...
2024-03-01
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A New Word: Aesthosis
aesthosis– n. the state of feeling trapped inside your own subjective tastes – not knowing why you find certain things beautiful or ugly, only that you do – wishing...
2024-03-01
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A First Look at Redgate’s Subsetter
I have been a proponent of subsetting databases in dev/test for a long time. It took awhile, but as part of the Test Data Manager that Redgate launched at...
2024-03-11 (first published: 2024-02-28)
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Azure SQL MI License free?
A common setup when leveraging the cloud is to use the cloud for Disaster recovery (DR) purposes, some say it becomes a logical extension of your on-prem / data...
2024-03-11 (first published: 2024-02-27)
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Foreign Keys in SQL Data Generator
A customer recently asked about using FKs in SQL Data Generator, and I decided to write a short post showing how these work. The Scenario I’ve got a copy...
2024-03-06 (first published: 2024-02-26)
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Humble Bundle of Java Books
I try to keep an eye on the Humble Bundle bundles for books. The bundles serve two great purposes: I was able to grab the Cybersecurity bundle, but by...
2024-02-26
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How Redgate’s Test Data Manager Can Enhance Automated Testing
A brief overview of the benefits and challenges of automated testing and how Redgate’s Test Data Manager can help. Automated testing uses software tools to execute predefined tests on...
2024-03-06 (first published: 2024-02-26)
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A New Word: Proluctance
proluctance – n. the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you’ve been looking forward to – opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who’s finally back in...
2024-02-23
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10 reasons why IT certifications are still important
As someone who has spent over 20 years in the Software/Data Engineering area and has obtained numerous certifications, I can confidently say that certifications are still a valuable asset...
2024-03-08 (first published: 2024-02-23)
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Know Thy Platform
IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure...
2024-03-04 (first published: 2024-02-22)
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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