Top Ten Reasons to Attend the 2009 PASS Community Summit
There are some good reasons to think about attending the 2009 PASS Community Summit.
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
Calling Stored Procedures from .NET Applications
Everybody knows how to call stored procedures from a .NET application. Right? But then, how often do you see stored procedures used to their full advantage in database applications? William Brewer goes through some of the basics, but uses PowerShell as the example .NET application, and avoids all mention of Northwind or AdventureWorks!
SQL Server Configuration
The importance of correct configuration. Which default configuration options to change. Common mistakes.
Transparency and PASS
I hate to start a blog war, but maybe there's one going on. The recent PASS 2009 election concluded a...
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
What Do We Want from PASS?
With the election of the Board of Directors complete for 2009, Steve Jones takes a step back to examine what we might want from a professional organization. If you care about having an organization for SQL Server professionals, read this and let us know if you agree or disagree.
Data and Customer Service
Businesses are always looking to collect data on their customers. However when they are fgiven this data, there is a level of trust from the consumer that is expected of the business. Guest editor John Magnabosco talks about the need for database professionals to take care that we are honoring this trust.
Enabling the Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) in SQL Server Express
SQL Server Express has the same code base as the rest of the versions of SQL Server, but there are some differences in how to set it up and configure various tasks. MVP Brian Kelley shows us how to enable the Dedicated Administrator Connection.
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...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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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