Query Store Hints in SQL Server 2022
Another neat little feature in SQL Server 2022 is Query Store Hints. This is the ability to apply a query hint through Query Store rather than having to modify...
2022-11-30
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Daily Coping 30 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to learn a new skill from a friend or share one of yours with them. I like learning, so in this case, I took advantage...
2022-11-30
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Encrypting Your SQL Data Should be Your Default Option
Cyber-attacks and data breaches seem to be perpetually on the rise. Every week we hear news of large companies that have had data stolen with both financial and reputational...
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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User Group Meeting – Migrate your SSIS skills to ADF & More
This Monday (the 5th of December 2022), my employer AE hosts a user group meeting for dataminds. There will be two sessions: It’ll be a very interesting evening, and...
2022-11-30
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Power BI Embedded: Using Row-Level Security for Multilingual Reports
Making multilingual reports in Power BI requires a lot of different elements. Translations can be added to PBIX files to translate column names, visual titles, etc. but these translations...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Daily Coping 29 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make a meal using a recipe or ingredient you’ve not tried before. It’s the holidays, and my daughter is home. She’s GF, so I’m...
2022-11-30
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My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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Automatically Take Missed Backups with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts
I blogged a few years ago about my configuration tables for Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution that allows me to pull the configuration parameters from tables
The post Automatically Take Missed...
2022-11-29
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SQL Server 2022 is GA!
The big announcement at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022 was that SQL Server 2022 is now generally available. See the official announcement. My top 10 list of new...
2022-11-29
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Tell My Story of Public Speaking
This month the fine folks behind New Stars of Data and the DataGrillen Newcomer Track bring us the Tell Your Story blog party. Where we
The post Tell My Story...
2022-11-28
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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