SQL Compare Force Column Order in a Table
I had a client that was concerned about SQL Compare behavior when a developer adds a column to the middle of a table. I wanted to reassure them, so...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Blog Posts
Off to SQL Saturday Salt Lake City … on Friday
I’m off on Thursday for Salt Lake City and a SQL Saturday on Friday. SQL Saturday Salt Lake City 2024 is happening, and I’m glad I get to go....
2024-04-02
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Power Query ODBC bug affecting date calculations
I was working on an imported Power BI semantic model, adding some fiscal year calculations to my date table. The date table was sourced from a view in Databricks...
2024-04-02
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How I use Terraform to deploy my AWS amplify react js project
As a Software Engineer, I would like to deploy my AWS Amplify react js project using Terraform so that I can automate my workflow and eliminate any manual intervention...
2024-04-01
26 reads
Interview around DevOps, Data, AI and Microsoft Fabric
A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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The PASS Data Community Summit 2024 Call for Speakers
The PASS Data Community Summit call for speakers and volunteers is open. You have until April 10 to submit something, and you can do that here: Data Community Summit...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-22)
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Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 5: Folders in Workspaces
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going...
2024-03-31
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How I use Ansible to automate routine tasks by running an Adhoc script
As a Platform Engineer, I would like to run a script on over 1000 servers and i don not want to spend the whole day running script manually. There...
2024-03-31
33 reads
How I use Ansible to automate routine tasks by running an Adhoc script
As a Platform Engineer, I would like to run a script on over 1000 servers and i don not want to spend the whole day running script manually. There...
2024-03-31
36 reads
A New Word: 1202
1202– n. the tipping point when your brain becomes so overwhelmed with tasks you need to do, you feel too guilty to put anything off until later, prioritizing every...
2024-03-29
31 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...
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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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