Normalisation
The purpose of normalisation is to remove redundancy and prevent conflict. 1st Normal Form (1NF) – Every field can have only...
2013-08-07
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Client Pressures and Code Quality
In my experience, code quality always trumps urgency because when code has been released that has questionable quality, it is...
2013-06-09
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SQL Query Result Order
Every time an SQL query is run without the ORDER BY clause, the sort order of the results returned is...
2013-06-05
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SQL Logical Query Processing Order
This probably applies more to beginners or people who have been using SQL for a while but have been wondering...
2013-06-03
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SQL and Relational Theory
Do you know the foundation of SQL? According to the book Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Training Kit on the...
2013-05-31
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The right terminology for the right audience
For those who has the privilege of being in the technology consulting industry for some time and started out in...
2013-01-17
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
2012-10-19
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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