No Google
Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.
Shrinking the Log
It seems that I see more and more posts about people trying to shrink their transaction logs. It's getting to be close to the time when I need a cut-and-paste snippet stored in a file I can pull out for my standard "it is recommended that you...
Transfer Logins Task and Transfer Database Task in SSIS
The Transfer Logins and Transfer Database tasks can be used in combination to easily and efficient migrate databases and users across different SQL Servers.
A Generic Process to Convert XML Data - Part 2
Continuing with his series on loading and transforming XML data, Leo Peysakhovich shows how to create the generic process to perform the convesions.
The Worst Advice
We all try to help others with advice, but sometimes we end up doing damage. Steve Jones asks for the worst advice you see given in this Friday poll.
How To Enable User-Defined Hierarchies in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
I have a requirement to provide users with the capability to define their own reporting hierarchies for sales data. For instance they had a report which broke down sales by the four regional VPs then by office. Later they created regions, assigned VPs to each region, then assigned offices to each VP. Now they want to be able to create a number of other scenarios and choose which one when they run a report. Can you provide some suggestions on how to do this?
HP Mini Netbook – Day 2
I arrived in Richmond, VA this morning earlier than expected. I was meeting a few people and things were pushed back, so I had the chance to go by Best Buy and find a USB->VGA adapter. Apparently they don’t have the HP VGA cable, so I got this adapter...
Partitioned Table and Index Strategies Using SQL Server 2008
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software provides table partitioning to make such operations more manageable.
The Worst Advice
We all try to help others with advice, but sometimes we end up doing damage. Steve Jones asks for the worst advice you see given in this Friday poll.
The Worst Advice
We all try to help others with advice, but sometimes we end up doing damage. Steve Jones asks for the worst advice you see given in this Friday poll.
Blogs
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
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Want to look at cloud reporting but not sure what the costs will be?
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Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but...
The Joyful Craftsmen and the Revolt BI join forces
The Joyful Craftsmen has become the new owner of Revolt BI. The merger creates...
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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
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SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
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BIT_COUNT I
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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