How To Get Table Row Counts Quickly And Painlessly
Use sysindexes\DMVs insead of select count(*) to retreive table row counts
31 Days of SSIS – Generating Row Numbers (23/31)
31 Days of SSIS
It’s Sunday afternoon and a good time to be putting up post twenty-three for the 31 Days...
Internals and Performance class in Dallas
At last, my blog is starting to pay real dividends. Not only do I get the opportunity to publish my...
Showplan Operator of the Week - Merge Interval
When Fabiano agreed to undertake the epic task of describing each showplan operator, none of us quite predicted the interesting ways that the series helps to understand how the query optimizer works. With the Merge Interval, Fabiano comes up with some insights about the way that the Query optimizer handles overlapping ranges efficiently.
Master Immersion Events from SQLskills.com
A new series of courses is available from SQLskills to help you better learn to manage and tune your SQL Server instances. These classes are designed to help you complete the MCM certification, but are also valuable for anyone that wants to become a better SQL Server DBA.
Master Training
Steve Jones talks about the value of deep training. He is aiming to get some from SQLskills this year as part of their MCM training series, even without trying to pass the certification.
SQL Server Central Webinar Series #8: Creating smaller and comprehensively verified backups
The next webinar from SQLServerCentral will look at backups and how you can create faster, smaller, and verified backups. Join Steve Jones and Rodney Landrum for this presentation on SQL Backup Pro and SQL Virtual Restore
31 Days of SSIS – Data Flow Expressions (22/31)
31 Days of SSIS
Today, we continue on with the 31 Days of SSIS blog series. Yesterday’s post was on the...
Connect to a SQL Azure Database Using SSMS or SQLCMD
Learn how you can connect to a SQL Azure database.
DBA 101: Why is my log file full?
This question comes up constantly in different venues. I see it sometimes 2-3 times a day on SQL Server Central....
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...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Art, Part 4: Happy...
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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