SSIS 2012 Change Data Capture (CDC) Control Task
Change data capture was introduced in SQL Server 2008 and has been pretty popular ever since. The basic concept behind...
2012-07-10
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Blog Posts
Time Zones
Why don’t we have a function like the one in this article to convert from time zone to time zone?...
2012-07-10
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Back Across the Pond
This coming weekend is SQL in the City – London 2012. Friday, July 13, and Saturday, July 14, I’ll be at...
2012-07-09
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Blueprint for consulting riches
As a business intelligence architect consultant, I have met many people out there who are as good or better than...
2012-07-09
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Dynamic Multi-Threaded SSIS using C#
Here is a snippet of code that will assist in the dynamic ‘spin-up’ of duplicate SSIS packages. To put it...
2012-07-09
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First SQL Server UG Meeting in Harrisburg, PA
If you work with SQL Server and live in the Harrisburg area I have some great news for you. The...
2012-07-09
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Group Think (or Groupthink)
I’ve thought about writing on this topic a couple times and was reminded of it again when I read a...
2012-07-09
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Identify and Alert for Long-Running Agent Jobs
Being a DBA is like being a train conductor. One of the biggest responsibilities is making sure all jobs are...
2012-07-09
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdatabases
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-09
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Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery
I haven’t been able to do much XQuery development recently which is a shame as I love developing with the...
2012-07-09
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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