The Age of Software
Does the age of software matter? Steve Jones talks about this after there was a decision for the SQL 11 tools not to support Windows XP.
2011-06-23
272 reads
Editorials
Excel in the Clouds
Today Steve Jones talks about a new use for cloud computing with Excel to analyze large sets of data.
2011-06-21
164 reads
Archiving
It seems that archival isn't on the mind of most designers when they first build a database, which is OK, but DBAs ought to be building skills to implement this if the data size grows large.
2011-06-20
740 reads
Patch Week
This week Steve Jones notes there were quite a few patches from Microsoft for a variety of products. No SQL Server specific security patches, but that doesn't mean that DBAs shouldn't be patching systems.
2011-06-20
136 reads
Multiple Failures
This Friday Steve Jones has a disaster recovery poll. When you have a true disaster, often there are multiple things that go wrong and cause a cascading failure. Is this common, let us know what your experience is this Friday.
2011-06-17
116 reads
Phrases that Resonate
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Are there particular phrases that you use in technology that resonate with you and have particular meanings? Andy shares a few of his favorites.
2011-06-16
155 reads
Understanding Security
It is important for data professionals to understand security, but it's also important for end users that must handle data. However we have a lot of work to do to make that easier since Steve Jones thinks many IT pros struggle with this concept.
2011-06-15
282 reads
Etiquette
As technology has rapidly advanced our communications, we have not necessarily learned to deal with the implications and challenges of this anywhere, anytime communication reach. Steve Jones reminds us that etiquette matters, even when we are designing systems.
2011-06-14
219 reads
Cloud Outages
It seems that we regularly hear about outages from various cloud services. Steve Jones comments that we are likely to have this happen more and more, but it's shouldn't happen at a rate greater than in house IT services.
2011-06-13
152 reads
What's holding you back?
If you’re not where you want to be in your career, then what do you think is holding you back?
2011-06-13
210 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
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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