Using the T-SQL MERGE Statement
In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft added a new SQL query type: the MERGE statement. This flexible query provides the ability...
2014-04-13
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Blog Posts
Reasons why your plans suck : No 56,536
I have been working with SQL server for more years than I really care to mention and like to think...
2014-04-12
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An Open Letter to Brogrammers
It’s not in the language I would write it in and it’s not necessarily safe for work, but it gets...
2014-04-11
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Call for Speakers – SQLSaturday #324 Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge is now on its 6th SQLSaturday and the event grows year after year. It all started with Patrick...
2014-04-11
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Friday Followup For April 11, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-04-11
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Quarterly Goals
Over time I’ve settled on quarterly goals as the best way to focus on the stuff I most want to...
2014-04-11
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Reblog: April 4 to April 10
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-04-11
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Simple And Amusing Question Of The Day
I was working on a script today to check the range of some values and trying to take the time...
2014-04-11
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Speaker of the Month, April 2014
I’m really enjoying picking a speaker of the month. It forces me to sit through a lot more sessions at...
2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-04)
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T-SQL Tuesday #53: Why so serious
Why so serious? If you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I’m not a terribly serious person....
2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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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
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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