No Time for Testing
Testing software is important, but we always seem to find reasons not to. Steve Jones has a few thoughts about testing.
Should You Use SQL Server 2022’s STRING_SPLIT?
SQL Server 2022 improved the STRING_SPLIT function so that it can now return lists that are guaranteed to be in order. However, that’s the only thing they improved – there’s still a critical performance problem with it.
A New Year, New Efforts
Happy New Year! You're going to be seeing a lot of summaries for 2022 and predictions for 2023 around this time of year. I'm not writing one of those. You'll also see people calling for new years resolutions and the like. I'm not going for that either. Nope, let's keep it simple. It is a […]
Looking Back at 2022
This is the last workday of 2022. Next week starts a new year, and as I've often done, I wanted to look back at the year. This time I decided to look back month by month, at some of the headlines and memorable data-related topics. I'm tackling things month-by-month. In January there was a set […]
T-SQL Language Changes in SQL Server 2022 Part 3
Learn about more of the T-SQL language changes in SQL Server 2022. This article is the third in a series and will cover the changes to the JSON functions.
Enabling digital transformation – and data modernization – with DevOp
Where does data fit into the digital transformation story? Discover how and why it deserves a place in this fascinating piece from Pramod Sadalage, principal consultant at Thought Works
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support for Azure Blob Storage
In this article, we walk through the steps and examples of how to use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) when working in Azure.
Stairway to SQL Server Replication: Level 2 - The Role of the Distributor
In this Stairway, Sebastian will be covering the details of SQL Server transactional and merge replication, from understanding the basic terminology and methodology of setting up replication, to describing how it works and how the basic replication processes can be monitored.
The End of Year Career Evaluation
Steve lists a few things to think about for an end of year career evaluation.
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
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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