Will GDPR cause a “Database Run”?
What is GDPR, everyone’s (current) favorite acronym? It stands for “General Data Protection Regulation” and is an act / law / set...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-23)
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Solomon Rutzky
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Server Audit Mystery 1: Filtering class_type gets Error Msg 25713
The other day I ran into an odd problem trying to answer the following question on DBA.StackExchange:
How to filter out...
2018-02-01 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Stored Procedure / Function / View / Trigger Definitions Can Be Wrong, Even If sp_rename Was Never Used
SQL Server stores the full definition of certain T-SQL objects — Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, and Triggers — in their original form,...
2018-01-09
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Which Collation is Used to Convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR in a WHERE Condition? (Part A of 2: “Duck”)
(If you’re reading this on SQL Server Central, please click here to see the “Featured Image” which will help explain...
2018-01-04 (first published: 2017-12-08)
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PLEASE, Please, please Stop Using Impersonation, TRUSTWORTHY, and Cross-DB Ownership Chaining
(last updated: 2018-03-27)
Despite features added in SQL Server 2005 (yes, 2005!) that allow for very flexible, granular, and robust security,...
2017-12-30
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Which Collation is Used to Convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR in a WHERE Condition? (Part B of 2: “Rabbit”)
(If you’re reading this on SQL Server Central, please click here to see the “Featured Image” which will help explain...
2017-12-28 (first published: 2017-12-11)
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Sessions, Temporary Objects, and the Afterlife
For thousands of years theologians have offered various thoughts on the question of what happens when we die. Does some...
2017-11-30 (first published: 2017-11-20)
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Line-Continuation in T-SQL
Some (or maybe most?) languages and operating system command shells allow for breaking up long lines into multiple lines (i.e....
2017-11-08 (first published: 2017-10-27)
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All New Collations in SQL Server 2017 Implicitly Support Supplementary Characters
As I was testing whether or not the new “Variation Selector Sensitive” ( _VSS ) Collations in SQL Server 2017 would assist...
2017-10-31 (first published: 2017-10-16)
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SQLCLR vs. SQL Server 2017, Part 6: “Trusted Assemblies” – Whitelisted Assemblies can’t do Module Signing
“Trusted Assemblies”, a new feature starting in SQL Server 2017, is a means of whitelisting Assemblies that one feels pose...
2017-10-09 (first published: 2017-09-29)
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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