Looking at SOX
This Friday Steve Jones asks what impact the Sarbanes-Oxley act has had on your job. After nearly a decade since the act was passed, is it intrusive in the workplace or just another part of your job.
Mouse Clicks, Reactive Extensions and StreamInsight Mashup
I had an hour spare this afternoon so I wanted to have another play with Reactive Extensions in .Net and StreamInsight. I also didn’t want to simply use a console window as a way of gathering events so I decided to use a windows form instead. The task I set myself was this. Whenever I click on my form I want to subscribe to the event and output its location to the console window and also the timestamp of the event.
SQLskills Immersion Events - Deep SQL Server Training!
SQLskills is offering a number of intense SQL Server training events later this year. A new class has been added in Chicago in May along with a London event in June.
Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
What a week for our first Immersion Event on Internals and Performance
A short writeup on the first Immersion Event from SQLskills, a week long class designed to bring real world skills to DBAs and developers that want to become highly skilled SQL Server professionals.
Implicit and Explicit Conversions
Code that depends on implicit conversions can live for years in production without issue. However Steve Jones says that you shouldn't depend on these conversions
SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Integration Services - Managing Local Processes Using Script Task
SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services includes a number of predefined tasks that implement common administrative actions to help with data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL). While in a majority of cases they are sufficient to deliver required functionality, there might be situations where an extra level of flexibility is desired.
SQLPeople: An Interview With Andy Leonard
The thing that I most enjoy about going to conferences, SQLSaturdays, and user group meetings is the people I get...
SSRS: Shared DataSet, Not So Shared!!!
I was really excited about the concept of Shared DataSets when they were introduced. My excitement diminished a little when...
The Business
How is your IT relationship with "the business"? Andy Warren asks today if there is a real client relationship between the implementers of technology and the consumers.
Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
Forums
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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