Daily Coping 22 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to ask a trusted friend to tell you what strengths they see in you. On one hand this would seem easy. On the other, it...
2022-09-22
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Power BI Tracker
Znáte ten pocit, kdy jste si přepsali nějakou složitější measure a rádi byste jí vrátili do stavu, jak vypadala před hodinou? Nebo kolega něco upravil ve vašem modelu, ale...
2022-09-22 (first published: 2022-09-21)
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Daily Coping 21 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to leave positive messages for yourself to see regularly. I could use post-its, or something else, but something that has worked well for me with...
2022-09-21
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Checking Database Compatability = #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I needed to check the compatibility level of a database and SSMS didn’t work. This is what I did in T-SQL.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/alter-database-transact-sql-compatibility-level?view=sql-server-ver16 Another post for me that is simple...
2022-09-21
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Azure Managed Instance Changing DNS prefix
Azure Managed Instances are provisioned by default with a yourname.uniqueid.databases.windows.net DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Even on your private virtual network you will still have to use this...
2022-10-05 (first published: 2022-09-20)
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“Done in 7 minutes” -SQL Server 2019 Install
This blog comes to you from the home office after three days of caring for my sick six-year-old son. Yay for stomach bugs… Have you ever needed to install...
2022-09-20
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Daily Coping 20 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find a caring, calming phrase to use when you feel low. Life is mostly good, but there are times I feel down, depressed, low,...
2022-09-20
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Conversion Precedence
Recently I talked about the difference between implicit and explicit datatype conversions. In it I ran this code: With the ... Continue reading
2022-09-20
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Meetings Are Work Too
So Many Meetings I’ve said it. We’ve all said it.
I can’t get any work done today, I’ve got so many meetings.
I need to be reminded on occasion that for...
2022-09-20
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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BIT_COUNT II
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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