Analyzing Baby Names using Power BI
Me and my wife are contemplating names for our first baby we’re expecting in a couple of months! We don’t...
2015-06-16
799 reads
Samuel Vanga
Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others
Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
2,648 reads
Read Flat File Contents to Variable – Write Variable Value to Flat File
When working with SSIS, you’ll often find the need to read the contents of a flat file to a variable,...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-08)
7,575 reads
Presenting Biml and Team-based Development at PASSDC and BSSUG
I’m excited to present two different sessions in April at DC SQL Server User Group and at Baltimore SQL Server User Group. I...
2014-04-03
546 reads
Automate T-SQL Merge For Loading Dimensions
If you’re a data warehouse developer, chances are you use T-SQL Merge statement to process slowly changing dimensions. If you’ve...
2014-02-05
1,335 reads
Get Rid of These 5 T-SQL Bad Habits with SQL Prompt
We all have bad habits. Maybe we eat too many snacks, spend too much time on the couch watching TV,...
2014-01-21
587 reads
Standardize Table Aliases
What's wrong with the following code?
tsqlLine number Off | Hide | Select allSELECT a.[BusinessEntityID] , b.[FirstName] , b.[LastName]FROM[HumanResources].[Employee] a INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b ON...
2013-03-05
782 reads
Standardize Table Aliases
What’s wrong with the following code?
SELECT
a.[BusinessEntityID]
, b.[FirstName]
, b.[LastName]
FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] a
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b
ON b.[BusinessEntityID] = a.[BusinessEntityID]Nothing – except for my...
2013-03-05
894 reads
Sparklines and Conditional Formating in SSRS
When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
855 reads
Sparklines and Conditional Formating in SSRS
When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
478 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...
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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
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Creating JSON III
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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