Daily Coping 13 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to show an active interest by asking questions when talking to others. I listen more and more these days. I’m trying to input less and...
2023-02-13
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Queries Impacting TempDB
The question came up that someone wanted to monitor the queries impacting tempdb using Extended Events. Initially, I was pretty sure that there was no real way to do...
2023-02-13
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Build Once – Add Metadata
When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...
2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Daily Coping 10 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to send a message to let someone know you’re thinking of them. I reached out a friend the other day, someone I know from the...
2023-02-10
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New Microsoft Purview features
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
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Daily Coping 9 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to write down your hopes or plans for the future. Hopes are vague, and plans are easier, so here are some plans: Plan a trip...
2023-02-09
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RMOUG Training Days in Denver
Next week I’m heading to the Lowry Conference Center in Denver for the RMOUG Training Days. The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group has put this on for years, and...
2023-02-07
20 reads
Daily Coping 7 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to go to bed in good time and allow yourself to recharge. I need this reminder. Lately I’ve struggled to sleep well, through the night,...
2023-02-07
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-31-2023
Hello Dear Reader! After a weekend with a lot of activities, it was a down week here at Casa Balls. Woke up and walked a lot. I'm still not...
2023-02-06
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Creating a Flyway Desktop Shadow Database in PostgreSQL
In order to generate migrations, we need to configure Flyway to use a shadow database. This post looks at that process. This is part of a series of working...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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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