A Cast of Thousands
In a guest editorial, Rodney Landrum offers a light-hearted guide to role of each member of the cast in a typical SQL code deployment.
2011-08-01
151 reads
Editorials
The Impact of Outages
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
2011-08-01
79 reads
Geeky Distractions
This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
2011-07-29
155 reads
You Can Telecommute
Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.
2011-07-28
249 reads
Time for a ROWID?
Steve Jones looks to the future of SQL Server and wonders if we ought to add a rowid to the internal structures.
2011-07-27
243 reads
NewSQL Can Save the World
A new breed of products use the relational model and address the scalability concerns of many RDBMSes. Today Steve Jones talks about NewSQL databases.
2011-07-26
227 reads
Patches for SQL 10 and Techniques for SQL 11
Steve rounds up the patch news for SQL Server this week along with a look forward to the next version of the platform.
2011-07-25
126 reads
Be Reasonable
Be reasonable. That's how Steve Jones thinks managers ought to behave towards their employees.
2011-07-21
160 reads
I Want Stupid Employees
Why don't employers want to fund training? Steve Jones has a few thoughts after a great piece that shows the lack of wisdom in withholding training.
2011-07-20
322 reads
Fitting In
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about fitting in at work and conforming to the expectations of the group and that environment.
2011-07-19
228 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...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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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