SQL Saturday #145 Nashville – Recap
This month has been wild. I’ve been out of town quite a bit for work, and started the month with...
2012-10-15
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Blog Posts
Using SQL Server 2012 FileTables
Reblogged from Basit's SQL Server Tips:
SQL Server 2012 allows you to store file/directories in a special table called FileTable that...
2012-10-15
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Database Design Contest at the 2012 AITP Region 3 Student Conference
Had a great Friday in Lafayette, LA on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. 31 different teams submitted database...
2012-10-14
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SQL Server # TSQL to Convert STRING in PROPER format
Problem Statement
SQL Server has got in-built functions to convert the given string into LOWER() or UPPER() format but it does...
2012-10-14
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When a Covering Index no longer covers
I received an email from my boss on the morning supervisors approve timesheets. He stated that they are complaining about...
2012-10-14
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CSSUG Oct2012 - My Session Presentations and Scripts Are Available Here
Chennai SQL Serve User Group Meet for Oct'2012 happend today at Microsoft Traning Centre located in Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai.
Its pleasure seeing enthusiastic...
2012-10-13
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Presentation DAC: PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning
The San Francisco SQL Server User Group – Oct 10 2012 Thanks you everyone for attending session, here is the presentation...
2012-10-13
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Presentation DAC: PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning
The San Francisco SQL Server User Group – Oct 10 2012 Thanks you everyone for attending session, here is the presentation...
2012-10-13
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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