How to Get Started with SQL Server Management Studio
Learn How to Get Started with SQL Server Management Studio with Brent Ozar.
2020-08-14
Articles
The Basics of PowerShell Day By Day
A basic introduction to PowerShell for those DBAs familiar with T-SQL.
2020-08-13
6,579 reads
Using Simple Linear Regression to Make Predictions
The first part of this article focuses on using an R program to find a linear regression equation and the second part is devoted to simple linear regression analysis.
2020-08-13
SQL Server Agent Job Monitoring for Last Execution
In this article we continue our series of using PowerShell to monitor SQL Server by collecting the last run information for SQL Server Agent Jobs.
2020-08-12
Azure Data Factory : Your First Data Pipeline
Introduction Azure Data Factory is the cloud-based ETL and data integration service that allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating data movement and transforming data at scale. We can create and schedule data pipelines which can move data between various supported data stores. We can also use for data transformation before loading it into […]
2020-08-11
11,283 reads
SQL Server Bulk Insert for Multiple CSV Files from a Single Folder
Check out this article to see how to quickly import into SQL Server many files with the same structure using T-SQL.
2020-08-11
Protect SQL Databases with Dell EMC PowerProtect and DataDomain Under VMware
Introduction We are now in the data era – data is growing at rapid space, being processed in different ways, and becoming more distributed across data centers and clouds. Thus databases are also growing and they are stored and protected in various ways depending on business objectives. As more organizations continue to move application and […]
2020-08-10
2,292 reads
Storage 101: Data Security and Privacy
No discussion about storage is complete without thinking about security of the data. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains what must be considered to protect data in today's world.
2020-08-10
Visualise SQL Server IO Stats
Visualise and compare the output of set statistics io on with Power BI to assist with performance tuning.
2020-08-07 (first published: 2018-12-18)
6,138 reads
Gathering SQL Server Performance Counters for Multiple Servers
SQL Multi Script can easily be persuaded to run queries at the server level rather than the database level. It is also able to combine results from many databases even if the results aren't identical but have some different columns. Phil Factor demonstrates how this works, when collecting a set of performance counters from all databases on a distribution list of servers.
2020-08-07
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...
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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