My PASS Summit 2015 Recap
A few days ago I returned from PASS Summit 2015 (and a vacation I took afterwards). Here’s my recap: I...
2015-11-22
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Blog Posts
SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially...
2015-11-22
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SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially...
2015-11-22
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SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially...
2015-11-22
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SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially slow or has a high IO or CPU cost...
2015-11-22
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Download Analytic Platform System Tools and Books Online
Photo Credit – Mario KlingemannMicrosoft’s Analytic Platform System (APS) has been a favorite platform of mine over the last few years....
2015-11-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Python and Tweepy
One of the projects that’s been on my list lately is to programmatically access Twitter for a few ideas I...
2015-11-20
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Savepoints and conditional transactions
This is the second in a short series on transactions. In the previous part I discussed nested transactions and showed...
2015-11-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Scripts – A Living History
As a DBA, I have a collection of scripts that I use for anything from auto-fixing logins to seeing who...
2015-11-20
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Aggregation Design is Back!
If you use SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Data Tools – BI (SSDT-BI) for your SQL Server 2012...
2015-11-19
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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