We have some data we can query using the serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. For this blog post, I’m querying data that is stored in Azure Cosmos...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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We’ve all been there as DBAs…people requesting access to the servers that we look after to be able to view certain things. I’ve always got, well, twitchy with giving...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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It’s been a long journey, but I got the email from Apress yesterday to say that my book “Pro Encryption is SQL Server 2022” has now been published. You...
2022-12-05 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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Today’s coping tip is to do something playful outdoors. Easy. Skiing today. First day of the season. I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQL Server...
2022-11-22
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Hello Dear Reader! Last week was a week we have been building towards since the launch of Tales from the Field. My favorite conference every single year, Live! 360. ...
2022-11-21
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Recently I got a hold of my Untappd data. For those who don’t know the app, it’s a rating app for beers. You can check-in a beer each time...
2022-12-05 (first published: 2022-11-21)
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Today’s coping tip is to revisit a coping tip from the past and see if it helped you.. I came up with this one after I tried to do...
2022-11-21
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Just a quick post to let you know that there’s a great sale right now at Springer on my brand new, completely rewritten, query performance tuning book. Get your...
2022-11-21
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Fairly short post here. Due to the recent events around Twitter (which I will not get into), I’m making an effort to reduce or completely cease my activity on...
2022-11-21
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You can find the slides and demo scripts for my sessions at Cloudbrew (Snowflake) and PASS Data Community Summit (Migrate SSIS skills to ADF) in my Github repo. If...
2022-11-19
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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...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
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...
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