Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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From Zero to Pull Request with Git on Windows
I wrote a guide about using Git and GitHub for "Windows people".
This is the guide I wish was available when...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-16)
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Rounding versus truncating
Be careful when implicitly converting data types in T-SQL. Directly assigning 1.5 (either as a FLOAT or a NUMERIC) to...
2014-04-15
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Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)
The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...
2013-07-23
2,849 reads
How To Make Your DLL Into A NuGet Package for a Private NuGet Feed
This is my reinterpretation of the documentation on NuGet.org, modified to remove the public publishing steps, and to add local...
2013-06-05
25,150 reads
Performing an INSERT from a PowerShell script
This code demonstrates how to do an INSERT into SQL Server from a PowerShell script using an ADO.NET command object...
2013-05-24
85,815 reads
Setting up an Internal Friendly URL
Note: This solution is not necessarily the best or most efficient solution in all cases. It is, however, very simple...
2013-02-27
3,300 reads
Using SkyDrive at Work for Collaboration - A Quick Start Guide
It seems that many of my projects in the past year or so have required sharing files with external business...
2013-02-06
1,149 reads
Using Inline “With” Blocks to Augment a VB.NET Default Constructor
Say you have a simple data transfer class that looks like this:
Public Class Employee
Public Property Name As String
Public...
2013-02-02
1,145 reads
IIS Express Quickie Command-line
This is a reminder to my future self for how to quickly start IIS Express from the command-line on 64-bit...
2012-11-24
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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