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PAAS

Platform as a service, a new way of looking at applications. It's analogous to SAAS and IAAS, which can improve the efficiency of the software purchase or the hardware acquisition process. Steve Jones notes that this is something he'd like to see for database platforms.

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2011-04-13

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The Value of Data

What value can you place on data? It can be hard to determine, especially when so many sites on the Internet want data to be free. However the New York Times is going to a subscription model, with the idea that there is some value to their data and people will pay for it.

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2011-04-04

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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
37
What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount
from dbo.UserPermission
where UserID = 3;

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