Be in the SQL Yearbook
I’ve been thinking about this for years, and I’m finally doing it. I’m making a SQL Yearbook, and I want you to be...
2018-09-06
266 reads
Jen McCown
T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?
So today, this happened: Now I suddenly want to know how many bananas tall I am… https://t.co/7geupBzXDj — MidnightDBA (@MidnightDBA) September...
2018-09-06
315 reads
Fix: When an Availability Group listener’s IP is stolen
When you can connect to the individual nodes of a SQL Server Availability Group (AG), but not the AG listener,...
2018-09-05
883 reads
Learn PowerShell in Oklahoma, August 24!
SQL Saturday Oklahoma City is coming up RIGHT SOON, on August 25. The day before SQL Saturday OKC - August 24...
2018-08-14
702 reads
Vote for a new SSMS feature: Pin files in SQL Server Management Studio
So, this just happened: That's a p good idea. I'll upvote it if you put it in User Voice. Or...
2018-08-03
412 reads
Minion Backup: Restore to another server
Minion Backup makes your SQL Server backups effortless, of course. And even better, it makes your restores effortless! Oh, yes….yes indeed. Today we’ll look...
2018-06-28
451 reads
The transaction log for database ‘MyDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’
Your transaction log is full. Both Microsoft, and about 100 articles and blogs have covered this topic, but let's take...
2018-06-14
357 reads
Generate RESTORE LOG statements
Today, we're going to take a specific, simple example of generating RESTORE LOG statements from a directory list of files,...
2018-06-06
808 reads
Tea with Kalen! An interview with Kalen Delaney (#DBAsAtMidnight)
We had an AMAZING talk with Kalen Delaney – wait, you do know who Kalen is, don’t you? Rightfully, @SQLQueen on Twitter. Over 30 years...
2018-05-16
352 reads
SQL Saturday Dallas half-day precon: “Beginning Programming with Powershell”
On May 18 we will be presenting a half-day of PowerShell learnin', right before SQL Saturday Dallas! Read up and...
2018-04-24
349 reads
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