I’m Speaking at Pass Summit 2019
I am very excited to be heading to PASS Summit 2019 in Seattle next week. It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year. Getting to hang out with...
2019-11-01
20 reads
SQLEspresso
Invest in Yourself Stop Making Excuses
Bob Pusateri (B|T) tweeted a quote image that really struck a chord with me and elicited a strong reaction from myself. It got me thinking I need to write...
2019-11-08 (first published: 2019-10-22)
1,559 reads
The FAST number_rows Query Hint
Query hints are always about tradeoffs—typically you are giving up something, such as flexibility, to achieve more consistency, or very specific performance characteristic. One example of this migt when...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
1,028 reads
New Event Calendar
Speaking Engagements Check out my new Event Calendar, to see my upcoming and past speaking engagements. You can catch me at various events throughout the year. If you are...
2019-10-15
14 reads
SQL Server Statistics Health Reminder
I’ve written about statistics in SQL Server a few times now. Through conversations I am reminded that not everyone keeps their table statistics up to date. Keeping your statistics...
2019-09-26 (first published: 2019-09-18)
503 reads
Quick SSMS Tip
It is widely known that I am a horrible speller and hate to type code. I tend to use a lot of code snippets and reuse code to avoid...
2019-09-20 (first published: 2019-09-11)
1,262 reads
What SQL Server Performance & Management Tools Do I Use?
Several times I’ve been asked what tools are in my performance tuning and SQL Server management arsenal, so I decided to just create this blog to list them out...
2019-09-04
438 reads
Are My SQL Server Indexes Being Used?
Indexes can be incredibly beneficial to your database performance; however, they do come with a cost—indexes both consume storage space and affect insert performance. Therefore, it is important as...
2019-09-11 (first published: 2019-08-28)
2,796 reads
Keep It Simple Stupid
Some of us take days and weeks to write a blog, while others can take two minutes and write a great blog *cough* *cough* Denny (B|T). Why is that?...
2019-07-24
36 reads
Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server Part 3
My last two blogs were on understanding columnstore and creating columnstore indexes. In this post, I will touch on one last topic, when to use columnstore indexes. As noted...
2019-08-05 (first published: 2019-07-17)
650 reads
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...
Forums
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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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
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