I delivered a presentation for the Houston SQL Server User Group tonight, virtually from Colorado. I’d love to go down, but couldn’t do it today. The slides for the...
2023-05-25
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Setting up a local web server was something that I haven’t done in a long time and this was really easy. This post shows how to do this with...
2023-05-24
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The HUGE announcement at Microsoft Build yesterday was Microsoft Fabric (see Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI), now available in public preview. I have been...
2023-06-12 (first published: 2023-05-24)
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In SQL Server you can also compress your encrypted backups. Unlike TDE this has been possible with Backup Encryption since the feature was first made available, and there have...
2023-06-12 (first published: 2023-05-24)
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Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Fabric during the Microsoft Build conference. This is a unified analytic solution of the era of AI. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics...
2023-05-24
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Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Fabric during the Microsoft Build conference. This is a unified analytic solution of the era of AI. Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, unified analytics...
2023-05-24
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MY WILL, MY BUG, MY GRADUATEJust a little under 18 and one half years ago, William came into my life. There are a lot of words to describe a new...
2023-05-23
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Using Statistics Parser to easily read output from STATISTICS IO and STATISTICS TIME.
2023-05-23
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I ran across an interesting post from Rita Fainshtein that looked at the different types of graphs for a set of data. I thought that was interesting, so I...
2023-06-09 (first published: 2023-05-22)
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Unlike TDE, there is some extra CPU overhead when you take an encrypted backup as the data has to be encrypted before being written to disk – whereas with...
2023-06-05 (first published: 2023-05-22)
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By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
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...
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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