Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government
System will mix Epyc CPUs and Radeon Instinct GPUs.
2019-05-07
Hardware
Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop By Nearly 50% in 2019
According to a new financial presentation from Nidec, a Japanese motor manufacturer who is responsible for around 85% of all HDD spindle motors, the company believes that shipments of...
2019-05-06
Seagate Ships 16 TB PMR Hard Drives, Preps 18 TB SMR HDDs
Continuing the march of progress in the HDD industry, Seagate has revealed that they have started shipping their 16 TB PMR hard drives. In a quarterly earnings call last...
2019-05-06
Why You Shouldn’t Use an Intel Xeon Silver Processor for SQL Server
Processor-based licensing means selecting hardware carefully for good performance.
2019-05-03
ASRock DeskMini A300 Review: An Affordable DIY AMD Ryzen mini-PC
Small form-factor (SFF) machines have emerged as a major growth segment in the desktop PC market. Performance per watt is an important metric for such systems. Intel has pretty...
2019-04-26
New HP Spectre x360 Laptop
Introduction Earlier this week, I bought a new HP Spectre x360 13-AP0023DX convertible laptop at Best Buy. I have often criticized Best Buy as a bad place to buy...
2019-04-25
The Intel Optane Memory H10 Review: Two SSDs In One
Intel's latest SSD caching solution using 3D XPoint memory is here. This time, the Optane cache is paired with QLC NAND flash, and all bundled onto one M.2 module...
2019-04-22
Intel Optane Technology and SQL Server
You may have heard of Intel Optane Technology, but perhaps you aren’t quite sure what that term actually refers to, and whether it is relevant for SQL Server. Unfortunately,...
2019-04-14
Hands on with the 56-core Xeon Platinum 9200 CPU: Intel’s Biggest CPU Package Ever
When Intel announced the new Cascade Lake family as officially launched last week, it added a new product segment to its portfolio – the ‘Application Processor’ or AP. These...
2019-04-08
Pricing of Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules Leaks: From $6.57 Per GB
At least two retailers from the US on Friday have started to take pre-orders on Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory modules and therefore had to reveal their prices. Today...
2019-04-05
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