Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If you possibly can, work where there are no names for what you do.” – from...
2026-04-10
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The Voice of the DBA
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard Edition, a few on the Enterprise Edition, and others handling core work, like the Linux/PostgreSQL...
2026-04-13 (first published: 2026-04-06)
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A Las Vegas Break
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for the Red Rock Rave volleyball tournament with a team of 13 year olds. We’ve been...
2026-04-03
15 reads
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a few people thinking and commenting on their own experiences. I decided to write a few...
2026-04-10 (first published: 2026-04-01)
190 reads
Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try and answer it myself. I assumed this would be easy, and it was, but I...
2026-04-15 (first published: 2026-03-30)
175 reads
The Book of Redgate: No Politics
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this value: In our context, this was about being open and transparent. This is the text...
2026-03-27
42 reads
The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City
We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC. The Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City comes back on May 5, 2026. You...
2026-04-03 (first published: 2026-03-25)
173 reads
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert thresholds in Redgate Monitor and decided to write a little about this. This is part...
2026-04-06 (first published: 2026-03-23)
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A New Word: los vidados
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might have forgotten completely if someone hadn’t happened to mention them again – friends of friends,...
2026-03-20
24 reads
Finding and Updating Duplicate IDs: #SQLNewBlogger
Finding duplicates was an interview question for me years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it. Recently I got asked how to easily do this and delete them, so I...
2026-04-01 (first published: 2026-03-18)
227 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...
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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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