Data lakes typically have three layers: raw, cleaned, and presentation (also called bronze, silver, and gold if using the medallion architecture popularized by Databricks). I talk about this is...
2023-08-28 (first published: 2023-08-09)
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I had a client ask about how to deal with encrypted stored procedures in their database. This post looks at how to find them and I’ll have future posts...
2023-08-09
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This T-SQL Tuesday is from a new host, Josephine Bush, leader of the Boulder group just North of me. It’s an interesting invitation, asking what our job titles really...
2023-08-08
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RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time ZonesAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor version 2019 CU21Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports self-managed Active DirectoryAmazon RDS...
2023-08-08
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My dear friend Josephine Bush a.k.a HelloSQLKitty hosts this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. Josephine’s call to us is to share our understanding of the multitude of job titles available out...
2023-08-25 (first published: 2023-08-08)
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A client asked for a summary of changes, so I wrote a post to show where to find this in SQL Compare 15. As I was checking out the...
2023-09-08 (first published: 2023-08-07)
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The start of learning at the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit is 100 days away. I checked. The Summit starts for many of us on Monday with precons or...
2023-08-07
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It’s been a little while since I’ve had time to relax a bit and try some AI help. This is another experiment I made. A user on SSC asked...
2023-09-01 (first published: 2023-08-04)
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idlewild – adj. feeling grateful to be stranded in a place where you can’t do much of anything, which temporarily alleviates the burden of being able to do anything...
2023-08-04
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A friend asked me for some travel tips and ideas recently. One of their questions was on what types of things do I actually carry on the road, both...
2023-08-03
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By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
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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