The Benefits and Detractions of Remote
Working from home during the pandemic is likely to change many things, and Steve discusses a few today.
2020-06-11
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Editorials
2020-06-10
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What's a Normal SQL Server?
Many of us have worked in environments that have a number of SQL Server instances. Different versions, editions, and mostly different hardware profiles. We deal with different applications and software that places different demands and requirements on our database systems. Some of us are even dealing with multiple datastores, trying to integrate SQL Server with […]
2020-06-09
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Double Half and Quarter
I've worked in a a couple very high performing organizations that adapted to changing conditions and built software well. I've worked in more poorly performing organizations that struggled to release updates and patches, causing tremendous stress for the IT staff. DevOps is designed to help improve our software delivery and quality, if you work on […]
2020-06-08
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The Social Impact of Data
Let the data drive your decisions. This has been something of a mantra for many technical people, and even many business people, across the last twenty or so years. The allure of business intelligence is harnessing lots of data to make decisions that are rooted in some rational analysis of what has happened. Many companies […]
2020-06-06
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2020-06-05 (first published: 2016-04-29)
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Do You Think About CheckDB?
Running checkdb is part of ensuring your database health and data integrity. Steve notes that you might want to review that you have the best strategy for your organization.
2020-06-04
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2020-06-03
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2020-06-02
157 reads
Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
265 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
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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
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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