T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge
It’s that time of the month again… again. Time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s event is being hosted by Matt...
2011-04-12
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StrateSQL
April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)
Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another. To achieve great...
2011-04-11
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I Got Registered!
I’m going to SQL Rally! Are you going to SQL Rally? Have you heard of SQL Rally?
What’s SQL Rally?
I’m glad...
2011-04-07
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#Meme Monday
Use extended events; they work – and make you appear magical.
– “Write a SQL blog post in 11 words or less”...
2011-04-04
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#SQLSat67… it’s mystery is only exceeded by it’s power.
We’ve seen a few summaries come through by now, so I’m going to throw mine into the mix. To recap...
2011-03-29
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MCM Exam – Take 2
Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam. If you recall, I failed the exam last...
2011-03-29
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Index Black Ops Series
Previously, in a TSQL2sDay index summary post, I started a series on the DMV sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats. The series investigates how the...
2011-03-26
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TechFuse Follow-Up
Last week I spoke at the TechFuse event in Minnesota – out at Mystic Lake Casino. As I mentioned in the...
2011-03-24
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What Are Your Indexing Strategies?
A couple weeks ago, I got some pretty great new. The book proposal that I had submitted to Apress was...
2011-03-22
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Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming
Twin Cities Code Camp will be hitting the University of Minnesota Campus again next month. This is a biannual event...
2011-03-18
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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