Flyway Desktop PoC–Adding a Shadow and Baseline Script
In the last post, I created a baseline marker for Flyway in each database. This set the version in the dev and QA databases to v1. However, I also...
2023-04-12
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Blog Posts
How to Change the Browser Used by SSMS for AAD Auth
Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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Using SQL Alerts to Spot Suspicious Activity in SQL
SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
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Reasons Why SQL Servers Don’t Get Configured to Industry Best Practices
Throughout my career, I’ve worked on a LOT of different SQL Servers. Many that were installed and configured by application administrators, developers, vendors, and data professionals. I’ve seen servers...
2023-04-11
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Creating a Simple Graph in RedisGraph
I delivered a session on graph databases, and in it I used RedisGraph to show how you can work with graph data on that platform. This blog shows a...
2023-04-10
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New Job -> Week 2 -> Creating a Checklist
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life....
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 04-03-2023 & Easter
Hello Dear Reader! Hopefully you had a great weekend. This weekend was filled with gatherings. On Saturday we gathered with friends and had a really nice Game Night.... where...
2023-04-10
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Why i use a smaller docker image part I
What is Docker? Docker is a famous platform for building, shipping, and running container applications. What are containers? Containers are a way to package software in a portable and...
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-27)
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Converting Types in C#
I am not a great software developer. I’m OK, and I do know how to use Google and Stack Overflow well. Maybe my best skill is wording searches well?...
2023-04-07 (first published: 2023-03-22)
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Dropping Career Goals for Q2
I set goals at the beginning of 2023 for Q1. I didn’t do well, as my evaluation earlier this week has a D for my efforts. I’m re-evaluating things,...
2023-04-07
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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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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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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