2026-06-27
11 reads
Database Weekly
Liability for AI Errors
Who is liable for mistakes made when listening to AI tooling? In at least one case, Steve isn't sure.
2026-06-13
79 reads
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
A Thank You message to the original founds of the PostgreSQL project and members of the community that have been working so hard for 30 years.
2026-05-30
227 reads
What Are You Waiting For?
This editorial discusses how to help others take their first step into contributing to the community
2026-05-02
101 reads
2026-04-25
37 reads
Dancing Robot Goes Rogue
The headline says it all and Steve thinks this could be a problem in the digital world as well.
2026-03-28
72 reads
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
Windows is changing its security, which will affect SQL Server.
2026-02-14
498 reads
No Defaults Passwords Ever
Steve doesn't see a reason why we should have default passwords on systems ever.
2026-01-17
69 reads
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
Microsoft gives a year in review from the SQL Server and Azure SQL teams. Steve sees a lot of accomplishments from this past year.
2025-12-20
115 reads
FinOps - the new name for performance tuning
This year I have been speaking with an increasing number of people about FinOps and what it means. Fundamentally, it is all about getting a handle on the cost for our technology spend. When we step back and look at the bigger picture it also has ramifications on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs […]
2025-11-29
143 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
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Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
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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