How to convert to Base64 and backwards via T-SQL
I want to share my way to convert a string to Base64 and back. Let me note that presented method is not the fastest, but it has one important...
2015-09-30
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How to convert to Base64 and backwards via T-SQL
I want to share my way to convert a string to Base64 and back. Let me note that presented method is not the fastest, but it has one important...
2015-09-30
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New SSRS features in SQL 2016 CTP 2.4
SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 hasn’t been released yet (any day now I guess), but someone was apparently very eager...
2015-09-30
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Notes From the September 16, 2015 Jacksonville SQL User Group Meeting
Forgot to post the next day and now missing details! Notes:
Rained the entire drive up (and back)Not a bad drive...
2015-09-30
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Session Action Metadata
In a previous article, I introduced the core concept of Actions. In that article, I explained that an Action is...
2015-09-30
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Session Action Metadata
Knowing how to access the deployed session metadata and the event metadata attached to that session, I will now begin the dive into how to find the same relevant...
2015-09-30
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SQL Data Generator–Masking Production Data
I learned a new trick with SQL Data Generator that I wasn’t aware of previously. I think this is a...
2015-09-30
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SQL Licensing
Recently, there are lots of questions about SQL licenses, many of them came from the fact that they starting to upgrade to 2012/2014 from their old 2005 servers as...
2015-09-30
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Utility link for excel import to SQL
Utility link for excel import to SQL
Save Excel Data into Databases
http://www.savetodb.com/Connect to databases, edit data, and save changes back. Edit data...
2015-09-30
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What’s happening in Asia Pacific?
TweetG’day,
I really am going to make an effort to blog more, and this post is really the start of that.
I...
2015-09-30
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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...
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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