SQL Server – Columnstore Index creation error: A columnstore index cannot be created on a SPARSE column
Hi friends, as we know that in SQL Server 2012 a new feature Columnstore index was introduced which made a...
2015-10-23
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Kapil Singh
SQL Server – Various methods to generate unique number sequence
Hi all, Friends, most of the time we used ranking function like ROW_NUMBER() when it required to generate unique number...
2015-09-28
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SQL Server – Methods to find running totals of a column
HI friends, in some working scenario or during interviews we got the task to find the running totals of a...
2015-09-14
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SQL Server – Using Window ranking function with UPDATE statement
Hi friends, I was working on a scenario in which I need to assign a unique values to a column....
2015-09-08
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SQL Server – Sparse Column Property using SELECT INTO
Hi friends, in our day to day work we used SELECT…INTO clause to create replica of a table for different...
2015-08-03
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2015-07-30
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SQL Server 2016 Blogs
Hi friends, As you all know that SQL Server CTP2 has released with new great features. Here is the list of...
2015-07-26
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Change in sys.dm_exec_query_stats in SQL Server 2016
Sys.dm_exec_query_stats is most commonly used DMO used by DBA and developers to find out the information about queries involving query...
2015-07-25
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Changes in In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016
In SQL Server 2014 a new feature In-Memory OLTP was introduced which was referred as ‘Hekaton’. This feature was introduced...
2015-07-23
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Introduction To Temporal Tables In SQL Server 2016
Hi friends, today I will get you introduced with another new feature of SQL Server 2016 i.e. Temporal Tables. SQL...
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-07-20)
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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
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:...
Creating JSON III
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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;
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