How Do I Spot Identity Columns That Are About to Max Out?
Every so often, usually in the middle of the night or on a holiday weekend, an identity column will hit...
2010-10-05
1,198 reads
Adventures in SQL
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index?
Can Deadlocks be Resolved by Adding an Index? Yes. Really, I’m not kidding. Here, I’ll show you how.
First, let me...
2010-09-27
1,339 reads
A Little Help with Azure Please
Not long ago Microsoft announced a new product called Azure AKA “SQL Server in the Cloud”. I have to say...
2010-09-23
327 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
Working in a technical field has it’s ups and downs. One of the more common annoyances I run into is...
2010-09-21
325 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
6 reads
What Did that Geek Just Say?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, maintains a Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. The dictionary is a great place to go to find out what people...
2010-09-21
4 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...
2010-09-14
844 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
34 reads
How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?
The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...
2010-09-14
5 reads
Quote of the Day
I do not usually post a quote of the day but since this is my own quote I decided to...
2010-09-13
356 reads
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
Forums
Creating JSON II
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating JSON II
Engineer Lessons
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Engineer Lessons
Question of the Day
Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers