I have transactional replication configured in my production environment with multiple subscribers. The business team has requested that one of the subscriptions be reinitialized, because they think there is some missing data. In this tip we look at the different options that you can use to reinitialize a subscription for transactional replication.
This article shows how to use 6 SQL table-based tools to solve the same problem, and gives the pros and cons of each.
This challenge invites you to solve a payroll challenge which requires to calculate the number of hours employee worked in a week.
SQL Server Integration Services is an essential component of SQL Server, and designed to perform a variety of routine and occasional tasks. It majors on ETL tasks and for administrative jobs across servers. The DBA needs also to be aware of their role in optimising SSIS by planning, trouble-shooting, optimising performance, and in documenting installations.
This Friday before Christmas, Steve Jones has a fun poll. What would you like for Christmas? Any fun, interesting, fascinating tech toys?
Longtime author and expert DBA David Poole examines a few T-SQL commands that he has never used. Learn how some of these little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you.
Fabiano Amorim continues his introduction to SQL Server's implementation of the window functions by giving a history of what got implemented and when, and explaining the concept of the 'Frame' in a window function, with plenty of examples.
This article presents an approach to perform server-side pagination and display complex hierarchical data in Reporting Services.
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor as Steve is on vacation. This piece looks at the complaints against GOTO and whether they are valid.
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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