The Countdown
Steve Jones has a short piece today, about an announcement coming today at 10am PST during the PASS Summit.
2011-10-12
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Editorials
The Half Day Experiment
A change at the PASS Summit this year has Steve Jones watching to see if it works out well for attendees and speakers.
2011-10-11
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A Nice Refund
This editorial was originally published on Sept 12, 2006. The IRS makes a $318mm mistake and Steve talks about the need to ensure that you don't do something similar.
2011-10-10
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2011-10-10
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The DR Test Schedule
Planning for disaster recovery entails a lot of different items, but testing is an important one. If you don't test your plans, you can't be sure they will work. This Friday Steve Jones asks how often your test.
2011-10-07
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Come Find Me at the Summit
Steve Jones reminds you to network anytime you're at and event, and especially a large conference like the PASS Summit.
2011-10-06
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An Awesome Job
Life is awesome, and Steve Jones things everyone can find something awesome in their jobs.
2011-10-05
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How do you learn the advanced stuff?
Today Steve Jones talks about learning those advanced features that you don't get the chance to use in your daily work.
2011-10-04
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Staying High
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the need to stay motivated in your career after an event ends.
2011-10-03
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Closing Out Replies
This editorial was originally published on Oct 17, 2006. It is being republished as Steve is at SQLBits 9 today. Should we change the way we deal with posts and replies? Answer today.
2011-09-30
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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