Does regulation make data any safer?
Working with healthcare organizations, I am constantly aware of the restrictions my staff and I must abide by according to HIPAA constraints. ...
2008-11-27
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Blog Posts
Pumpkin Tossing
One more holiday post. Hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving and are now enjoying either a quiet and well deserved day...
2008-11-27
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Happy Thanksgiving
I'm cheerfully taking the day off today (and tomorrow too!), and I'm writing this a week in advance as I...
2008-11-26
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Surface Demo
Second try. The video didn’t embed in the previous post. Nor this one. Here's the link
Microsoft Surface Demo
This is from...
2008-11-26
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Surface Possibilities
This is interesting. I’m not sold on Surface, though I did play with one last week in Seattle.
2008-11-26
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Workaround Primary Key Violations in SSIS
Before you get much further, please do not use this for every case where you have issues with duplicate rows....
2008-11-26
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Airlines Don't Care About Customers? Nor Does The Government!
I saw this post about a recent panel that tried to come up with guidelines for airlines as far as...
2008-11-25
1,387 reads
Catching Up
My goal of 400 posts a month has been in jeopardy with all the traveling I've been doing over the...
2008-11-25
1,479 reads
PC Magazine Going out of Print
Saw a post from Michael Miller that PC Magazine will end it's print version with the January issue. Have to...
2008-11-25
1,539 reads
Spend Money to Make Money
One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...
2008-11-25
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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