Quick Permissions Audit
DBAs often need to figure out who has access to what. When that need arises, it is frequently adequate to just perform a quick permissions audit.
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Automatic Tuning Monitoring and Diagnostics
Cool new toys/tools have been made available to the data professional. Among these tools are query data store and automatic...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-04)
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Automating like an Enterprise DBA
TSQL Tuesday
The second Tuesday of the month comes to us a little early this month. That means it is time...
2019-01-08
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Automating like an Enterprise DBA
One of the things that should seem very commonplace to a data professional is the effort to become a lazy DBA. A lazy DBA is not a bad thing....
2019-01-08
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ArithAbort and SQL Agent Failures
ARITHABORT can be a short termed head scratcher. Pay close attention to what has changed in the environment. Test alternatives. And check those connection strings.
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2019-01-07
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ArithAbort and SQL Agent Failures
ARITHABORT
I was coding along one day, working on rolling out some monitoring for a client—monitoring that I had used for previous...
2019-01-07
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Quick and Easy XE for Azure DB
The Cloud
It has been a minute since I gave much love or attention to Extended Events in Azure SQL DB....
2019-01-07 (first published: 2018-12-24)
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Short Circuiting Your Session
It isn't very often that one would consider a short circuit to be a desired outcome. In SQL Server we have a cool exception to that rule - Extended...
2019-01-05
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Automatic Tuning Monitoring and Diagnostics
Thanks to Extended Events (XE), we have access to a guide of sorts that will help us better understand if our shiny new tool (automatic tuning) is operating as...
2019-01-04
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Event Tracing for Windows Target
There are many useful targets within SQL Server's Extended Events. Of all of the targets, the most daunting is probably the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) target. The ETW...
2019-01-03
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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
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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