Share custom solutions in the MinionWare Community Zone
Since we released Minion Reindex over a year and a half ago, we’ve had a ton of wonderful feedback, praise, questions, and...
2016-06-07
630 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Minion CheckDB Beta
Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is...
2016-05-18
665 reads
See you Saturday in Houston!
Here’s your friendly neighborhood reminder to get free learnin’ at SQL Saturday Houston this weekend, where we’ll have the MinionWare booth, and sessions...
2016-05-12
510 reads
Easy SQL mistakes: Accidental Correlated Subquery
Just a fun note, because it was a moment of pure puzzlement for me. I’m writing a new SP for Minion Backup...
2016-04-25 (first published: 2016-04-18)
2,960 reads
XP_CmdShell isn’t Evil
Bonus summary: xp_cmdshell is limited to admins, unless you specifically grant permissions to users. And if you’re an admin, you have...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-09)
1,768 reads
Announcement: Backup(n.) vs Back Up(v.)
Let it be known that the word “backup” is a noun (it refers to a thing), and “back up” is a verb (it...
2016-04-07
513 reads
Utility function: dbo.JobName(@job_id)
As often as I have to pull a job’s name based on its job_id in the MSDB system tables, I’m truly...
2016-04-08 (first published: 2016-03-28)
1,479 reads
Catch The Enterprise Scripting Workshop in Orange County, Baton Rouge, Albany, or Atlanta this year!
Sean and I have put together our bazillion (read: like 30 combined) years of SQL Server DBA-ing into one big,...
2016-03-16
481 reads
Well that’s just neat: Row Level Security, new in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 offers Row Level Security, which sounds awfully cool. It’s apparently been available in Azure for a while,...
2016-02-25
1,118 reads
Shrink a log file…AUTOMATICALLY?
Today let’s talk about shrinking log files, and Minion Backup – still totally & forever free – and how they go together. First...
2016-02-25 (first published: 2016-02-22)
2,621 reads
Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
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