Triggers are not toys!
For the love of all that’s SQL, triggers are not toys! I’m not even talking about logon triggers or DDL...
2014-09-17
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Blog Posts
Why I Support PASS & Why I Criticize PASS
A friend recently asked me about my involvement with PASS, and that lead to the two questions in the title....
2014-09-17
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Better Presentations–Zoom
This is part of a series of tips for speakers on how to make your presentations better.
I’ve given around 30...
2014-09-16
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DBA in the Cloud: Threat or Opportunity?
Five years ago the term “cloud” was still a buzzword, and there was a lot of uncertainty and misconception around...
2014-09-16
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DevConnections 2014
It’s time for Devconnections again, and I’m back in Las Vegas for the conference. This is a great conference if...
2014-09-16
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PASS Summit 2014 Pre-Conference Seminar
I’m putting on a pre-conference seminar (also known as a pre-con) at the PASS Summit this year. I’m really honored...
2014-09-16
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Performance/ Management Data Warehouse Data Collector & AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Verwaltungs-Data Warehouse Datensammler & AlwaysOn Hochverfügbarkeitsgruppen
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This time, we are dealing with the „MDW“, short for Management Data Warehouse,(msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677306.aspx), which I like...
2014-09-16
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #311 Bulgaria
More good news! I will be speaking on SQLSaturday #311 Bulgaria.
If you read this blog and will attend the event,...
2014-09-16
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SQL – List Primary key and Concatenate composite Keys into a single row separed by comma
The following query lists all the Primary keys of all the table.
OP has requested to list all PK and composite...
2014-09-16 (first published: 2014-09-10)
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 43
I’ve got most of the messages up through Sep 27th drafted. Still need to tweak a couple, but close to...
2014-09-16
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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