How Your Hypervisor Can Impact Your CPU
Recently I had a client complain of chronic high CPU utilization. The performance of their SQL Server had degraded, and...
2019-03-06
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SQLEspresso
Editorial – Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments....
2019-02-27
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Azure Key Vault Logging
Following up from last week’s post on Azure Key Vault in this blog I will show you how to the...
2019-02-20
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Speaking Internationally at SQLBits
I am very excited and lucky to be speaking at my very first international conference, SQLBits. SQLBits, the largest SQL...
2019-02-13
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What is Azure Key Vault?
Keys and secrets (AKA passwords) are an essential part of data protection management not only on-premises, but within the cloud...
2019-02-06
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Azure Advisor
Azure offers a lot of value-added services included with the price of what you pay . One of the things really,...
2019-01-30
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Scheduling things to Run in SQL Server
A key part of the SQL Server Agent is the ability to schedule jobs. While you can create one schedule...
2019-02-08 (first published: 2019-01-23)
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Approximate COUNT DISTINCT
We all have written queries that use COUNT DISTINCT to get the unique number of non-NULL values from a table....
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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Static Data Masking (SSMS 18.0 Preview)
Ever need to have a test database on hand that you can allow others to query “real like” data without...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment
SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment (VA) in SQL Server Management Studio 17.4 or later lets SQL Server scan your databases for...
2018-12-12
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers