Networking Dinner at the 2013 PASS Summit–Tonight!
Tonight for the fourth year Steve Jones and I are hosting an informal networking dinner. We’ll be at Buffalo Wild...
2013-10-14
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday #227 in Charleston
My first time in Charleston! Quick notes:
Made the drive with the family in 7 hours, not bad, and easily the...
2013-10-13
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Renewed As MVP for 2013
Last Tuesday I received the email confirming that I will be an MVP for another year. Nice news to get....
2013-10-07
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Wrapping Up The 2013 PASS Election-Part 3
Today I’ll continue with my notes and thoughts on the 2013 election process and a good place to start is...
2013-10-06
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Wrapping Up The PASS 2013 Election–Part 2
I watched the election this year with interest and the advantage of having seen PASS elections from a number of different...
2013-10-05
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Farewell Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy died yesterday. I’ve been reading his books for a long time and I think I’ve read them all...
2013-10-03
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Wrapping Up the 2013 PASS Election–Part 1
Yesterday the results were announced, with Jen Stirrup, Tim Ford, and Amy Lewis winning seats for the two year term...
2013-10-03
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I Just Voted in the PASS 2013 Election
I feel like it’s been a good election cycle. Good set of candidates, good discussions, lots of good blog posts...
2013-09-26
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Monday Night Networking at the 2013 PASS Summit
For the fourth year Steve Jones and I are hosting an informal networking dinner on Monday night at the PASS...
2013-09-27 (first published: 2013-09-25)
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I’m Voting for Allen Kinsel
As you can see from the title of this post, I’ve decided on one of the three votes I’ll be...
2013-09-25
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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