Last Week Reading (2019-11-10)
Hello all! An extraordinary week has just passed. Two big conferences took place in the USA, PASS Summit and Ignite, where Microsoft announced plenty of new products or updates....
2019-11-10
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Kamil
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Last Week Reading (2019-11-03)
This week I’m offering you many posts about Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory and how to design reliable Azure applications. Have a great week also for those of you...
2019-11-03
17 reads
Script and deploy the data for database from SSDT project
This post is a part of the series about SSDT and database project leveraging Visual Studio. We already know that SSDT can cover all objects but only on a...
2019-10-30
39 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-27)
Hello and good morning! We have Tuesday morning, which means I experienced a delay in this post. But finally, it is out and have a look at how much...
2019-10-29
21 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-20)
Hello folks! 2 weeks passed but eventually, I have some news for you. Press Support for Azure Databricks Instance pool for operationalizing Databricks workloads in Data Factory Public Preview...
2019-10-20
12 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #119 – What changes my mind
T-SQL Tuesday series (the monthly blog party) has been started by Adam Machanic and co-ordinated by Steve Jones. This month’s topic is hosted by my friend Alex Yates. He...
2019-10-08
16 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-06)
Hello Azure/Power/BI/Data fella! Another two weeks passed very quickly and the new edition of Community conference in the UK is about to begin. Check whether you can attend one...
2019-10-06
11 reads
ASF 025: Rob Farley interview
Introduction Rob Farley is a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server since 2006. Rob provides consulting and...
2019-09-26
16 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-09-22)
Hello #datafolks! Let’s review what happened last week in Data World. It’s hard to admit but I missed last week’s post due to my visit to Sweden (SQLSaturday) and...
2019-09-22
11 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-09-08)
Hello all and welcome after my one month of my absence. What was I doing? Thank you for asking! I have been on holiday. ONE month of very relaxing,...
2019-09-08
21 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