Can We Skip the Marketing?
Steve Jones has a message for the speakers and presenters from Microsoft today.
2010-04-13 (first published: 2010-04-06)
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Editorials
Are you preparing for SQL Server 2008 R2?
With the launch of SQL Server 2008 R2 almost upon us, DBAs need to start planning in some time to see what it has to offer. Brad McGehee reviews some of the available resources.
2010-04-12
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The Log Shipping Standard
Log shipping is a tool that has more benefits than just recovering from a major disaster. Steve Jones thinks this might be a tool that DBAs should use for all their critical databases.
2010-04-12
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Essential Software
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if there is a set of essential software that every DBA needs to have installed on their machine.
2010-04-09
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Office Cleaning
A guest editorial from Andy Warren today looks at choices in time management, as well as work accomplished.
2010-04-08
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Don’t Change Anything
Being responsible for data integrity as well as the cleaning of data can be a problem for an organization. Steve Jones reminds us today that we should be careful about changing the data we work with.
2010-04-07
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Answering to the Business
As data professionals, or IT workers, we often have a lot of insight into how much our services cost and the options that are available. But many times the rest of the company does not. Steve Jones thinks we could be more transparent, and possibly help them to be more efficient.
2010-04-05
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Down Tools Week
Sometimes it's important for a developer or DBA to be given the opportunity to 'shake up their brain'. What falls out is almost always worth having.
2010-04-05
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2010-04-02
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No More NULL
A change in the support for NULL values has Steve Jones commenting on the implications.
2010-04-01
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
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...
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