Configure SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption with PowerShell
In this article Filip Holub looks at how to configure and enable transparent data encryption for a SQL Server database using PowerShell.
Monitor for errors in your SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Agent and Full-Text services
Learn how to monitor for errors in your SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Agent and Full-Text services
Deployment Suite for Oracle: What’s New?
Stephanie Herr describes the new features in the Deployment Suite for Oracle that will help you automate your database releases safely, on Linux or Windows.
Saving Game Data with Unity
One of the most critical things that a game must do is to save data like the preferences and score. In this article, Lance Talbert demonstrates two ways to save data when you create your game in Unity.
Azure Data Factory Triggers
This article explains the difference between schedule Trigger and Tumbling window Trigger in Azure Data Factor V2 (ADF V2) and how they behave on success and failure.
Self-selection Reteaming: It’s Not Crazy, It’s the Future
Today, Kendra Little talks about reteaming.
PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit is the must-attend conference for Microsoft data professionals; delivering 3 full days of technical training on data architecture, management, and analytics. Get the skills you need with in-depth sessions created and led by industry experts. Network and problem-solve with peers and Microsoft engineers, and get ahead of the curve with spotlight sessions on today’s hot topics. Join Redgate and the PASS community in Houston on November 10 - 13 to future-proof your data career.
Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Introduction
Microsoft provides a service to analyze text data called Text Analytics Cognitive Service. In this article, Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to use this service from Power BI.
Why you Should Always Specify Whether a Column Accepts Nulls
Phil Factor explains the factors that determine whether a column will allow null values, if you don't specify it explicitly in the column definition. If you rely on the default behavior established by your connection settings, you could be in for some nasty surprises.
Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
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A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
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When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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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