SSMS Keyboard Shortcut Fun
Andrea Allred (@RoyalSQL) just gave her SQL tips and tricks session at SQL Saturday Salt Lake City, and a great time was had by all! I learned some things...
2019-08-03
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Jen McCown
Fun with PowerShell: I made a game
So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other...
2018-11-19
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Live blog: Women in Technology lunch at #PASSSummit #passwit
11:48am This will be starting shortly! We’re stuffing our faces, first. Today’s featured speaker is Lauri Bingham, Director of Technology Engineering...
2018-11-08
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SQL work-vacation, Thursday! (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello yet again! I’ve been writing about our time this week in Seattle, for the PASS Summit. Saturday, I wrote that we’re here...
2018-11-08
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SQL work-vacation, Monday (#Workation #PASSSummit)
Hello again! Sunday, I wrote that we’re here in Seattle for the PASS Summit, and that it’s my tenth year. AND that...
2018-11-05
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SQL work-vacation, T-2 days (#Workation #PASSSummit)
We are at PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle, and I will write a bit about each day I'm here, just...
2018-11-04
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Regular Expressions: tagging expressions
I re-discovered something very cool while using RegEx in SSMS today: tagging expressions and referencing them in the same line! I’ll take...
2018-10-15
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sqlhelp: limit the x-axis of a geometry line graph
I have a #sqlhelp question that requires some code. So hey, blog post time! TL;DR: the geometry::STGeomFromText graph provides too wide...
2018-09-26
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More PowerShell for fun (and profit) – filter files by date
PowerShell provides an easy way to search for and/or delete just the files you want. Let's look at navigating in...
2018-09-24
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All about PASS Summit 2018
Here are the things you must/should probably know about PASS Summit 2018, as told by me. First Timers Read this...
2018-09-19
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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