Backup/Restore–What’s My Status?
The day begins and you find yourself going through a list in your mind of things that need to be...
2017-02-02 (first published: 2017-01-26)
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The SQL Professor
5 Characteristics Every Leader Should Practice
The word leadership has many synonyms attributed to it. Something that can be learned early on in one’s career is that...
2017-01-24
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Why Use Red Gate’s SQL Multi Script?
Someone once told me at the shop that we have plenty of software utilities laying around that could be very...
2017-01-18
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Hold The Fort
Have you ever heard the phrase “Hold The Fort”? Long ago in battle supply routes were targeted by enemy regiments...
2017-01-12 (first published: 2017-01-05)
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Looking Back At 2016
When this blog started back in 2011 I had no idea that it would continue to grow to where it...
2016-12-29
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The New PASS Logo and More
Change is not always easy. In fact, change is hard.
“Change” is a word from which some people shy away, and...
2016-12-20
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A Data Professional’s Story – PASS Summit 2016
This year is different. Why? I’m not sure yet. There is a lot of reflection going on since my return...
2016-11-11 (first published: 2016-11-02)
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PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 2
Dr. David DeWitt is getting ready to take the stage to a huge ovation and is thrilled to be back...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 1
Grant Fritchey taking the stage to talk about the financial health of PASS.
250k members , 170 countries, and 87% global representation...
2016-10-27
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PASS Keynote Part 2 – Live Coverage
Good morning from PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. Like yesterday I will be live blogging the event. The same format...
2016-10-27
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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