Moving away from an RDBMS
Today Steve looks at an article the migrates a relational model to CosmosDB.
Handling System-named Constraints in SQL Compare
If some of your database constraints have system-generated names, they can cause 'false positives' when comparing schemas and generating build scripts using SQL Compare or SQL Change Automation. Phil Factor explains the difficulties, and the Compare option you need to enable to avoid them.
Storage 101: Cloud Storage
Throughout this series, Roberts Sheldon has discussed a range of storage-related topics, some of which he mentions only briefly. One of those is cloud storage, which now plays a vital role in today’s data management strategies. Organizations of all types and sizes now employ cloud storage to varying degrees, either to supplement their on-premises systems or to handle the bulk of their data. Because cloud storage has become so pervasive, this article focuses exclusively on that topic, describing what it is, how it works, and its benefits and challenges.
Implementing Restart Ability For Shell Scripts
The purpose of this document is to help design Unix shell scripts (or any programming scripts) with restart capability from point of failure and also to avoid a common mistake done by developers/admins while filtering records.
Logshipping to SQL Server on Linux
An example of a database migration from SQL Server 2016 on Windows to MS SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
Stairway to SQLCLR Level 2: Sample Stored Procedure and Function
In the second level of our Stairway to SQLCLR, we look at how to enable the SQLCLR in SQL Server. We then build an assembly, store procedure, and a function that can be called from your T-SQL code.
Using SQL Source Control projects in Azure Data Studio
David Atkinson describes how developers who were previously writing and managing SQL source code in SSMS can make a smooth transition to Azure Data Studio.
Better Laptop Life
Intel is building hybrid processors, combining the power of the regular CPUs most of us use with Atom power saving technology.
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BIT_COUNT II
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers