SSRS Install, Setup and Configuration
In this article we cover all of the steps required to install, setup and configure SQL Server Reporting Services.
Feature branches and pull requests with Git to manage conflicts
Feature branching and pull requests are two important concepts when using Git. In this article, Kendra Little explains these patterns and even provides a video to demonstrate.
Free eBook: SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP
In this free eBook, Kalen Delaney explains how Microsoft's 2016 In-memory OLTP engine works. In her book, learn how to use lock- and latch-free data structures to allow non-blocking data processing, and find out how to migrate existing tables to Hekaton.
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Save costs with Azure Data Factory
A typical project following any industry standard process for building Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines will have different environments as part of development lifecycle. They might be named Development, Staging, Production, and so on. This article describes an approach to save costs from running ADF pipelines using Triggers. Typical ADF environments will have pipelines ingesting, […]
Azure Synapse Analytics Data Integration and Orchestration
In this tip we are going to build a sample data pipeline and explore Azure Synapse Analytics data integration and orchestration features.
SQL Server MSDB Database Tutorial
In this tutorial we will cover common questions related to the SQL Server msdb database. This is one of the standard system databases that are part of every SQL Server installation. This tutorial will give you a better idea of what the msdb database...
Corporate Career Progression
Today Steve looks at the career paths that might, or might not, exist inside an organization.
Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
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How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
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Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers