Clustered Columnstore Index Gives "Unable to find index entry" Error
The Clustered columnstore index generates "unable to find index entry" error and a memory dump after few DMLs on the table
Implementing Azure Blob Storage (ABS) With SQL Server 2014
With any application organizations face consistent key challenges such as high efficiency and business value, complex configuration, and low total cost of ownership. Extending applications to the cloud in hybrid scenarios addresses many of these challenges, whether distributing SharePoint content across on-premises and Office 365 while leveraging search as a service (hybrid search) or externalizing data, extending it to the cloud with Remote Blob Storage or related technologies.
Quick Survey: PostgreSQL in Your Organization
Do you use PostgreSQL in your organization? Are you thinking about using it? Take our short survey and tell us about what you think about it.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Time Since Last Restore
If your log restores aren't happening when they’re meant to, you want to know about it. You’ll be relying on restoring from logs should anything happen to your databases, and if you can’t restore to a certain point in time, you risk losing valuable data.
New toys in SQL Server 2012
In this article we are going to look two new enhancements: the Insert snippet menu option and the surround with option.
On the importance of a complete break
If you’re the type who habitually checks work email and thinks about work while on holiday, here’s Gail Shaw's challenge for next time: don’t.
Using the Script Task in SSIS to Process Data Files When They Arrive
Learn how you can process data files with SSIS as soon as they arrive using the Script Task.
More Text Analysis with the SSIS Term Lookup Component
As mentioned before, we will use the same use case in this tip as used with the Term Extraction component, which is an archive of all my tweets I've downloaded from Twitter. Using this archive and the Term Extraction transformation I found out which topics I particularly tweeted about in the past years or which persons I mentioned the most.
Data Mining Introduction Part 2
This is a continuation of first article about Data Mining. We will talk about decision trees.
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KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 6
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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