5 things to know about Databricks
Databricks is now available in both AWS and Azure so it’s getting a lot of buzz! Let’s discuss 5 things you should know about Databricks before diving in. 1. ...
2014-11-03
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Blog Posts
Force only certain values to be unique
I thought of something rather interesting the other day while answering a question asking for help with some table structures....
2014-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-22)
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How to copy table structure only from a SQL Query ? Tip #69
Recently , one of my friends shared that some interviewer asked him a question “How to copy table structure only from...
2014-11-03
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Implementing Tabular Data Models: Microsoft Virtual Academy
Implementing Tabular Data Models
Date: November 11, 2014
Time: 9am?5pm PST
Where: Live, online virtual classroom:
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/implementing-tabular-data-models
Cost: Free!
Register today! (linkto: http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/liveevents/implementing-tabular-data-models)
What will you do...
2014-11-03
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Interview questions for database developer
Technical Round Database Interview Questions
1) What are the different types of Trace flags which we used for detecting the Deadlock?
2)...
2014-11-03
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #107
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-11-03
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My DTS Package won’t load with the error “here were errors loading package”
You are trying to open a DTS package (yes some people still use DTS packages) and receive the following error:
Error...
2014-11-03
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PASS Summit 2014 Diary – Day 1
Today is the first day of official activities for the week. The PASS Summit hasn’t yet started, but I’ll be...
2014-11-03
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PowerPivot Saga: Scheduled Refresh more than once a day
PowerPivot data models in Excel is a great way to quickly pull data from various sources, build relationship between different...
2014-11-03
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Setting Expectations–T-SQL Testing
I don’t know who started this pattern, as I’ve seen it in a few places. It could have been Sebastian...
2014-11-03
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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...
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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:...
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;
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