The Growth Of SQLSaturday
A recent Connector showed the following stats for SQLSaturday for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 and mentioned 86...
2014-08-04 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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Blog Posts
What is ANSI_NULLS and why will I be glad when it finally goes away?
Recently I wrote about what it means that a value is NULL. Right at the beginning I mentioned ANSI_NULLS and...
2014-08-04 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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Writing Parametrized MDX for Reporting Services
Writing MDX inside of Reporting Services has been the nemesis for many report writers for far too long. If all...
2014-08-04
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 29
Received an email from LinkedIn that the ad was approved and so far we’ve spent a whopping 83 cents! Not...
2014-08-03
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 28
Today at lunch I looked at LinkedIn advertising. I only capture the last part to share here, but you put...
2014-08-01
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Friday Followup For August 1, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-08-01
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Lost Administrator SA password SQL server 2012
AdvertisementsThere are many blog posts talking about, how to recover “SysAdmin” password in case if it’s lost OR the server...
2014-08-01 (first published: 2014-07-27)
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Reblog: July 25 to July 31
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-08-01
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Why do we need UPDATE Locks in SQL Server?
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-08-01 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Arithmetic Overflow
Recently an incident came across my desk where an end user was receiving an error trying to retrieve some records...
2014-07-31
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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