Powershell, Me and the MCM
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program. The changes make the certification...
2010-12-16
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Powershell, Me and the MCM
If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program. The changes make the certification more accessible to the masses. You can read more...
2010-12-16
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Tis the Season
This month has been quite the month for change in my family. The changes that we are experiencing did not...
2010-12-15
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Tis the Season
This month has been quite the month for change in my family. The changes that we are experiencing did not end with the birth of our baby girl two...
2010-12-15
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
Business Requirements
We have made it yet another month and to yet another episode in the continuing saga known as TSQL...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
I think a common area that is easily overlooked when it comes to requirements and interpretation of requirements is report creation. A common problem is that there are no...
2010-12-14
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Wait Stats resources
Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday. While doing that, I came across a post...
2010-12-13
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Wait Stats resources
Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday. While doing that, I came across a post from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) about wait stats. The...
2010-12-13
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SSIS Job Execution
While working on a process to refresh the QA environment (data purge, reload data and reapply changes made over time...
2010-12-13
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SSIS Job Execution
While working on a process to refresh the QA environment (data purge, reload data and reapply changes made over time as parts of release cycles), I ran into self-imposed...
2010-12-13
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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