August #Meme15 Assignment
I haven’t done a #meme15 blog assignment in a while and figured I would pop one off as the weekend...
2012-08-10
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StrateSQL
August 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Summer is beginning to wrap up for those of us in the northern hemisphere and were finally to August. Maybe...
2012-08-09
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Book: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012
After about a year of work and a month of waiting, the book I wrote with Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt)...
2012-07-10
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdatabases
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-09
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscurconfigs
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-07
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5 Reasons Why I Need To Go To SQLskills Immersion Training
I was thinking about the contest that SQL Sentry is running for a week of SQLskills Immersion Training, and the...
2012-07-07
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconstraints
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-07
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconfigures
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-05
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscomments
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-04
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscolumns
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-13 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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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
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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