The parts of an object’s name
Any object within a database in SQL Server has what is called a four part name. Which rather implies four...
2017-03-20
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Kenneth Fisher
Review of Azure Fundamentals class on Openedx
My company has recently adopted a Cloud first attitude. Now that’s different from Microsoft’s Cloud first. Microsoft is putting new...
2017-03-08
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Queries with optional parameters
These are those queries where you are pulling for, let’s say, a first name, a last name, a state, and/or...
2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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Using GROUP BY instead of DISTINCT
Recently, Aaron Bertrand (b/t) posted Performance Surprises and Assumptions : GROUP BY vs. DISTINCT. In it he says he prefers GROUP...
2017-03-06
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Event storming! It’s raining emails!
One of the most common ways to get an event notification is by email. So what happens when you get...
2017-03-01
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What’s in my backup file?
Restoring a backup file is pretty easy right?
RESTORE DATABASE [Test] FROM DISK = 'C:\backups\backup.bak';Ok, but what if more than one database...
2017-02-22
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Penny wise, pound stupid
Growing up my mother used this phrase quite a bit. Penny wise, pound stupid. (In case you didn’t know the...
2017-02-20
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Deadlock priority
Everyone deals with deadlocks from time to time. But sometimes we need to control who’s the deadlock victim and who...
2017-02-17 (first published: 2017-02-08)
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Deadlock on ALTER DATABASE
I had an interesting problem recently. A database was stuck in single user mode. How exactly was it stuck you...
2017-02-16
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Server level database permissions
Sometimes you have a requirement to grant permissions to every database on an instance. Historically this has required creating a...
2017-02-14
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers