Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well (Question Of the Day)
My latest question of the day is up, this one called Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well. If you’ve...
2014-03-20
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SQLAndy
Submitting PASS Summit Sessions
I’ve been thinking for a while about what to submit for this year. I knew I wanted to have one...
2014-03-19
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Why Am I Here? You’re On Retainer
That’s just one of about a hundred great lines from episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous. A company with the...
2014-03-19
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A Nicely Made Smoke Detector
This may not be the exact model, but I bought 2 First Alert detectors at Costco for $23. Not a...
2014-03-19
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Reminder: Orlando Code Camp Is This Weekend (March 22, 2014) and It’s Not Just For Developers!
I’ll be attending the Orlando Code Camp this weekend. I know it says “code”, but there is a SQL Server...
2014-03-18
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A Minute About Minute Key
You may have seen these minuteKey boxes at your local home supply store (Lowes has it near me) that let...
2014-03-18
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Rodney Landrum Presenting at oPASS on March 20, 2014
Almost time for another meeting! This month Rodney Landrum is presenting Data Analytics and the DBA – Using PowerView to Uncover...
2014-03-17
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Some Notes On Writing A Question Of The Day
I wrote Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day) last week and yesterday dropped a note here about my latest...
2014-03-13
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You Broke My Tail Light
That’s the first thing I heard when I answered the phone recently. I was working on an change I needed...
2014-03-13
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Webinar Today at 3pm
I’m taking on a new topic today. Titled “ How to capture who did what in your SQL Server databases”, it’s...
2014-03-13
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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