SQL Saturday #115 - Portugal
A free day of SQL Server training in Lisbon. Register and come if you can.
Code Scanning
Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
TSQL Challenge 77-Transform monthly resource efforts to weekly actuals
The challenge is to transform monthly resource efforts into weekly actuals.
Working with Perfmon CSV logs in Powershell
When all you have is Powershell and perfmon logs, here's a way you can use them together to perform some analysis.
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking
Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from SQL. How does he do it? In the first of a series of articles, Peter explains his secrets.
Eliminating Duplicate Rows using The PARTITION BY clause
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
High Availability Upgrades
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
Stairway to SQL Server Replication - Level 8: Merge Replication – How it works
How merge replication works, including the impact on the published database. The merge agent, different conflict situations and their resolutions are introduced.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers