I'm "working from home"
Phil Factor argues that The serious problems with working from home come not from poor productivity, but when office-based team members seem to prefer to ignore the fact that the remote workers exist.
Using AT TIME ZONE to fix an old report
Rob Farley contributes to T-SQL Tuesday #87, showing how he would use AT TIME ZONE to simplify reports based on an end user's time zone.
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Default Value
Sometimes things are not exactly how we think they are. Read the story of the missing default value and learn why.
Encrypting SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) encrypts the data within the physical files of the database, the 'data at rest'. Without the original encryption certificate and master key, the data cannot be read when the drive is accessed or the physical media is stolen. The data in unencrypted data files can be read by restoring the files to another server. TDE requires planning but can be implemented without changing the database. Robert Sheldon explains how to implement TDE.
Comparing Space Usage for Different Compression Types
This is an investigation, to get an impression on the impact of the used disk space before and after compression considering different index types.
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 2
Arshad Ali discusses the architecture of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and how you can scale up or down, based on your need.
Continuous Delivery and the Development DBA
How to do database development with trunk based development and Continuous Delivery
Follow-up #1 on leading wildcard seeks
Aaron Bertrand shows how to implement simple triggers that maintain trigram-type tables used for better supporting wildcard searches.
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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