Microsoft Graph API in Power Automate: Using the Microsoft Graph Explorer
This is video two in a four-part series walking you through how to leverage the Microsoft Graph API within Power Automate. In this video, I
2022-04-26
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Blog Posts
Azure Redis Cache – scaling
Let’s assume that you started off with the lower editions and capacity with Redis and your developers tell you to scale the Redis cluster. Well first to use a...
2022-04-25
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Blog Changes Coming
Over the next couple days (weeks?), a significant change is coming to my blog (and if you’re reading this text, it’s already happened). I will be leaving Wordpress behind...
2022-04-25
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Daily Coping 25 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-25
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Error – Reference to external ‘master.dacpac’ could not be resolved when deploying dacpac in Azure Devops
I have a database project in Visual Studio. Inside the database, I use a couple of system views to fetch some metadata about tables. To make the project build...
2022-04-25 (first published: 2022-04-16)
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Online Training Courses
Today Paul sent out the quarterly numbers to the team letting us know the hours our courses have been viewed during March. Being a data guy, I decided that...
2022-04-25 (first published: 2022-04-12)
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Book Review – Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure
Yet another book review! I just finished the book Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure: Architecting ETL and Data-Driven Applications in the Cloud (what a title :), written...
2022-04-22 (first published: 2022-04-05)
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Daily Coping 22 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-22
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T-SQL Advice For Young, Old, and even Eccentric
Be mindful of advice. Give an ear to those offering it. Just be mindful, there is no need to accept the advice, but it is wise to at least...
2022-04-22 (first published: 2022-04-12)
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Daily Coping 21 Apr 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-04-21
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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