Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-12)
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I wrote about arrays in PowerShell last week, but I realized one of the things I did while experimenting was look up how to run code a line at...
2023-12-22 (first published: 2023-12-11)
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Recently a customer asked how they could get index changes to be captured in Flyway Desktop. In their case, they wanted a different fill factor, but I decided to...
2023-12-08
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giltwrights – n. the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus,...
2023-12-08
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In this post, I discuss about not forgetting to allow for additional head room when planning out new hardware, especially for HA/DR needs.
The post Accounting for Virtualization Head Room...
2023-12-07
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Hey folks, fun personal post today. A few weeks ago, I got married! My amazing new husband is Kyle Ferris, and I will be changing my name to Kristyna...
2023-12-07
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In June this year I took redundancy from the company I’d worked at for the previous 11 years. It was of course an uncertain time while I figured out...
2023-12-25 (first published: 2023-12-07)
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I posted that I was thinking about the AdventOfCode this year, but wasn’t sure I’d spend the time. Someone then posted a link to the TryHackMe advent calendar. I...
2023-12-06
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It’s me again with my apparently semi-annual blog post. This time we’re going to talk about which version of SQL Server you should be on, now that we’re at...
2023-12-20 (first published: 2023-12-05)
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I saw an article on this and realized I had no idea how to do this, so I decided to practice a bit. I don’t work with PoSh arrays...
2023-12-05 (first published: 2023-12-04)
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By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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