Rules of Holes #1: Stop Digging
You may have heard of the 'First Rule of Holes'. It goes something like this: " When you suspect you might be in a hole, stop digging. " That...
2012-11-12
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Rules of Holes #1: Stop Digging
You may have heard of the 'First Rule of Holes'. It goes something like this: " When you suspect you might be in a hole, stop digging. " That...
2012-11-12
9 reads
Rules of Holes #1: Stop Digging
You may have heard of the 'First Rule of Holes'. It goes something like this: " When you suspect you might...
2012-11-12
1,333 reads
Financial Transparency is Good for Community
I was recently in a conversation with several people that had previously organized one or more community events. The topic evolved into a discussion of Sponsors, and eventually, fund...
2011-11-07
9 reads
Financial Transparency is Good for Community
I was recently in a conversation with several people that had previously organized one or more community events. The topic evolved into a discussion of Sponsors, and eventually, fund...
2011-11-07
3 reads
Financial Transparency is Good for Community
I was recently in a conversation with several people that had previously organized one or more community events. The topic...
2011-11-07
885 reads
Paying for Free
It seems like there is a widespread malaise in the country these days. Everyone's clamoring to cut taxes -but no one wants to have their neighborhood school closed, or...
2011-09-26
8 reads
Paying for Free
It seems like there is a widespread malaise in the country these days. Everyone's clamoring to cut taxes -but no one wants to have their neighborhood school closed, or...
2011-09-26
6 reads
Paying for Free
It seems like there is a widespread malaise in the country these days. Everyone’s clamoring to cut taxes -but no...
2011-09-26
888 reads
There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
2010-11-16
6 reads
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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
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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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