There’s no substitute for mentoring
There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely...
2017-07-18
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Jen McCown
Employees, encourage work from home
The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one...
2017-05-22
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Employers, let your people work from home
Work from home is, astoundingly, still not the norm in United States IT offices. This is ludicrous, because employees want...
2017-05-17
440 reads
I’m going to make you love backups
On April 12, I'm going to show you about two dozen ways to make your backups better, easier, faster, and...
2017-04-04
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The Public Speaking Roadmap
So you look around, and all the cool kids are speaking at SQL Saturdays and PASS Summit and the like....
2017-03-25
330 reads
Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in...
2017-01-25
734 reads
Webinar: Introducing Minion CheckDB!
Minion CheckDB is available for download as of February 1, 2017! In celebration, we’re having a Minion CheckDB webinar on two...
2017-01-19
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Database snapshots for everyone!
If you're lucky enough to have SQL Server 2016, go on and upgrade to SP1....you get extra-lucky special database snapshots...
2017-01-05
618 reads
Why won’t my SP work THIS time?
Why won't my SP work? I did this exact thing. You're never too old to do something like this.
The post...
2016-12-09
561 reads
December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life...
2016-12-05
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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