Three Days to the first Nevada SQL Saturday
It’s three days to the first SQL Saturday in Nevada, taking place this Saturday in Las Vegas. I’m looking forward...
2014-04-02
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Blog Posts
VMware vExpert 2014
Today VMware released the list of 754 people who are the proud recipients of the coveted vExpert award for 2014....
2014-04-02
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Setting
Many of us are planning to move to SQL Server 2012 in the coming year, and one of the feature...
2014-04-01
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Goodbye SQL Server, Hello FileMaker…
The last weeks were very time consuming for me, because I had to make a very tough decision: staying independent...
2014-04-01
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Last Day in the UK
The driver behind the move
After over two and a half years at my current employers I am afraid to say...
2014-04-01
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Make it Work, Make it Fast, Make it Pretty
When I first heard this, it struck me as being a remarkably concise wisdom applicable to virtually any programming task....
2014-04-01
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Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
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Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t...
2014-04-01
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read...
2014-04-01
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
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...
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