Learning Options in Seattle Next Month
The 2014 PASS Summit takes place next month. Actually a few weeks, on Nov 3-7, 2014 in Seattle. While many...
2014-10-16
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Blog Posts
Notes From The October 15, 2014 oPASS & MagicPASS Meeting (The Souza-Thon!)
Both groups met at a special joint meeting last night at Nova University, part of Operation Souza. Before I go...
2014-10-16
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Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server
I have a pre-con coming up at the PASS Summit. You can read about it here. I named it “Query...
2014-10-16
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SSRS report rendered in EXCELOPENXML then something went missing
Recently I had been requested by a client to look into one of their SSRS reports issues. They had one...
2014-10-16
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The Murder Train is making a stop in Salt Lake City
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-10-16
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UNION vs UNION ALL
You might be wondering why I’m going into such a simple subject. Well the way I see it there are...
2014-10-16
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What will you see at SQL in the City
London, Oct 24, 2014
Seattle, Nov 3, 2014
Come join us.
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2014-10-16
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Beware the defaults! (in windowing functions)
Some time ago I was writing some windowing functions on a set of data. Basically I was looking for the...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Can’t Create A Timeline in Excel on Multidimensional Cube
Excel 2013 - We can’t create a Timeline for this report because it doesn’t have a field formatted as Date.
After getting...
2014-10-15
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Hell No, DMO - DMV is what it shall be!
So, I've finally decided to draw a line in the sand. I've been doing some writing lately. The radio silence...
2014-10-15
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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
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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