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In this tip we look at a PowerShell script you can use to gather information about all SQL Server Agent jobs on all SQL Server instances in your environment for quick reporting and analysis.
Recently I went to work on a SQL Server 2017 instance and couldn't get the Python runtime to load. I'd keep getting this error: A strange error for me to see, and one that didn't quite make sense. How can the runtime not launch? However, restarting the instance still resulted in this error: Msg 39021, […]
It's easy for most of us to get caught up in work and not stop to think about the larger picture, or the longer term. Steve Jones thinks you should make time for both of these.
Understanding scoping rules is a basic skill for developers. In this article, Joe Celko gives a bit of the history of scoping in early programming languages and shows how scoping applies to SQL queries as well.
This article explains the basic components of a tech stack, and the decisions and requirements that affect how and where monitoring tools generally, and a specialist SQL Server monitoring tool like SQL Monitor, in particular, fit into your stack.
Ready to create your first Database in Azure. Here are the step by step instructions with plenty of definitions and terms.
Kubernetes is a technology Steve thinks will be important in the future and knowing a bit more about it can be important for your career.
In this article we look at using AWS Performance Insights to help monitor and troubleshoot SQL Server performance issues when running on RDS.
This article will look deeper at the Azure SQL Database - Hyperscale edition, which was moved into General Availability (GA) in May 2019. This followed a bit of a preview time, when I first learned about how it worked in detail. I was impressed with the work being done, some of which will make it […]
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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