The Test of Time
IBM recently turned 100 years old and Steve Jones wishes more companies would try to build their business to grow to 100.
Comparing Oracle and SQL Server Code - Part 1
In this tip, Daniel Calbimonte compares the SQL Server (T-SQL) and Oracle (PL-SQL) extensions of the SQL language. The tip will compare both T-SQL and PL-SQL languages with respect to retrieving data, creating databases, tables, variables, etc.
Does It Count?
This Friday Steve Jones asks how you track uptime. Does your scheduled maintenance count against your metrics?
Trigger an Email of an SSRS Report from an SSIS Package
This article demonstrates how to trigger an SSRS subscription to email a report from an Execute SQL Task using SQL Server Agent and the ReportServer.dbo.AddEvent stored procedure.
Script All Server Level Objects to Recreate SQL Server
Carla Abanes provides a guide on how to create a console application that will generate create scripts for server level objects for multiple SQL Server instances. This is handy in the event of a disaster and you need to create a clone of the SQL Server that is no longer available.
A Syntax Mystery in a Previously Working Procedure
A previous working script show syntax errors on recreating (sp_helptext script line length limitation)
Sweat Files and Practice Projects
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at side projects and how you might actually grow our careers.
Using R to Explore Data by Analysis - for SQL Professionals
What's the best way for a SQL programmer to learn about R? It's probably by trying out various experiments with an interesting set of data, and some helpful suggestions that point out the parallels with SQL. Feodor provides the data and the helpful suggestions. The rest is up to you.
Culture Clashes and Arrogance
A guest editorial from Andy Warren looks at the disagreements between teams in technology.
Stairway to MDX - Level 11: MDX Time/Date Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and Derivative Shortcut Functions
BI Architect Bill Pearson launches a set of articles surrounding a group of MDX functions specialized to meet the pervasive business need to analyze data within the context of time / date. In this article, we will overview the PeriodsToDate() function, and then we will introduce "shortcut" functions that are based upon it.
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
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