SQLSaturday Update - 215 Registered!
We're at 215 registered with 3 weeks to the big day! This week I'll be having the last planning meeting...
2007-10-21
1,460 reads
SQLAndy
ZFS & Hard Drive Defects
The most recent ACM Queue Magazine (Vol 5 #6, Sep/Oct 2007) had two really interesting articles. The first was about...
2007-10-21
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Suggestions for PASS Published on SSC
I wrote this article shortly after returning from the PASS 2007 Summit and tried hard to come up with ideas...
2007-10-18
1,349 reads
The Troubleshooting List & Replication Statement Delivery Options
All of these are new articles that have gone up on SSC recently. The troubleshooting one was my attempt to...
2007-10-14
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Bill Graziano Visits oPASS & JSSUG
Bill Graziano (main man at SQLTeam.com, consultant, and VP of PASS) was in town recently to speak at both the...
2007-10-13
683 reads
Schema as Folder
I'm catching up on my reading today and ran across an article from Kathi Kellenberger called Understanding the Difference between...
2007-10-13
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Partitioning Part 2 Posted on SSC
I'm a couple days late updating the blog, the article went up on Mon.
2007-10-11
572 reads
Views, Temp Tables, Data Types - Aha!
I spent last week onsite with a client teaching performance tuning and it was really a good week. Great company...
2007-10-08
607 reads
Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...
2007-09-25
1,380 reads
Building a Local User Group
I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While...
2007-09-24
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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