How to Speak to a Tech
Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too...
2011-06-14
628 reads
Jen McCown
Speaker Lessons!! Un-SQL Friday #004 Roundup
We had a cozy (read: small) UnSQL Friday this time around, and I’m good with that. Every entry we got...
2011-06-09
842 reads
Run, The Sky is Falling (#memeMonday)
This month’s Meme Monday is “dumb SQL questions”. Here’s the one that gets under my skin the most these days:
Let me...
2011-06-06
641 reads
Speakers Lessons Learned at SQLRally Code Sins
This is my contribution to UnSQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned.
I got my SQLRally session evaluation back last week. I’d...
2011-06-06
589 reads
Un-SQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned
I began writing a story about, shall we say, a less than positive speaking experience…and then I realized: This is...
2011-06-02
1,089 reads
SQLRally 2011 Women in Technology Luncheon
On May 12, during the first-ever SQLRally , we held the first-ever SQLRally Women in Technology luncheon! I moderated, and our...
2011-05-26
1,013 reads
Community Podcast CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
If you’re already a MidnightDBA Groupie, then you’ve probably already heard about my fabulous inspiration: a new SQL community podcast! Now...
2011-05-23
1,628 reads
Busy is as Busy Does
I am, as they say, one busy little bee.
I just got back from SQLRally last week (here are my SQLRally...
2011-05-20
555 reads
DBA Brush-Up
I have a session I like to give called “Forgotton T-SQL”, or sometimes “T-SQL Brush-Up”. The idea is that there’s...
2011-05-17
789 reads
PASS Summit Cometh, and That Right Soon
Look at the cute bunny. Now go vote for me.
I can see October from here, and it’s coming at about...
2011-05-10
526 reads
Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Forums
Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers