Database Search in SQL Monitor
I learned something new recently. I can search in SQL Monitor for a database name, not just a server or instance name. I tested this over at monitor.red-gate.com recently...
2022-07-18
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Blog Posts
Generating Unicode Characters in Power Query
You may have used the UNICHAR() function in DAX to return Unicode characters in DAX measures. If you haven’t yet read Chris Webb’s blog post on the topic, I...
2022-07-18 (first published: 2022-06-30)
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Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
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Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
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Sabbatical!
Redgate Software has a policy wherein every 5 years, employees receive a 6-week paid sabbatical. Well, I’m up to year 11 (I skipped a year my first time), so...
2022-07-18
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Scary Scalar Functions - Part Two: Performance
Scary Scalar Functions series overview
Part One: Parallelism
Part Two: Performance
Foreword
In the second part of this series, we’ll look at how Scalar functions (or UDFs) affect performance.
If you want to follow...
2022-07-18 (first published: 2022-07-02)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday LA
SQL Saturday is coming back in-person to Los Angeles. I’ve been to this event a few times, and was sad when the pandemic pushed it virtual. However, 2022 is...
2022-07-18
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Daily Coping 15 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-15
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Quality Checks for your Power BI Visuals
For more formal enterprise Power BI development, many people have a checklist to ensure data acquisition and data modeling quality and performance. Fewer people have a checklist for their...
2022-07-15
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SharePoint List only returns 100 items in Azure Logic App
I was reading a SharePoint List using the “Get Items” activity in an Azure Logic App. I explain how you can create such a Logic App in the blog...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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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