New Job -> Week 6 -> Ozar sp_BlitzIndex
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 6 goal: Analyze all Azure SQL Database indexes. Last week, I...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 04-17-2023 Jorge, Wrexham AFC, & Guys Night Out
Hello Dear Reader! This past week was one I had been looking forward to for quite some time. A couple of months ago I had started reaching out to...
2023-04-24
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Change the Default Git Branch for a dbt Cloud Project
In dbt, you can link your project to a github account, which is obviously the right thing to do. By default, the project uses the main branch. But what...
2023-05-05 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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On being a woman and a data professional
This is a list of links, in no particular order, that you should read in no particular order. But read all of the words at the end of these...
2023-04-24
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Find out how fast is your SQL database growing using the backup metadata from msdb
Sometimes I need to know how fast a database is growing, or which particular database is growing the most out of all the databases on a SQL instance. Now...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-24)
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Monitor SQL replication subscriptions synchronization status
In your current role if you are managing a SQL server replication setup, you are probably well aware that if any of the subscriber is not getting synchronized within...
2023-04-28 (first published: 2023-04-22)
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How to use the new dynamic format strings for measures in Power BI
The April 2023 release of Power BI desktop introduced a new preview feature called dynamic format strings for measures. This allows us to return values with different formats from...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-21)
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Get your Query History in Redshift
Because my Windows machine apparently decides to install updates over night (and thus reboot my machine), it has happened that I lost the query that I was writing for...
2023-04-28 (first published: 2023-04-20)
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New Job -> Week 5 -> Create Index Maintenance Scripts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 5 goal: set up Ola index maintenance for all Azure SQL...
2023-04-18 (first published: 2023-04-17)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 04-10-2023, Taylor Swift, & The Disney 10 Miler
Hello Dear Reader! Last week was a really busy week with an even busier weekend. We will get to the show recap's in a moment but first let's dive...
2023-04-17
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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