Space Invaders on Kubernetes
A while ago I blogged about an awesome Chaos Engineering tools built by Eugenio Marzo (t) call KubeInvaders. Since then Eugenio has updated the repo to make it easier...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-10)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 24 Mar 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...
2022-03-24
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A new book is on its way
I am thrilled to announce that Microsoft Press (Pearson) has agreed to let us do another Inside Out book this year. This news is so fresh I haven’t even...
2022-03-23
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Book Review – Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing
Disclaimer: Apress gave me a free copy of the book to review. People that know me, also know I always give honest feedback 🙂 I had the pleasure of...
2022-03-23
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Building Azure Redis Cache
Let’s go through a Redis build process. It will be fun. Within Azure find Redis / search for it. Fill in the basics (location should be where your app...
2022-03-23
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Daily Coping 23 Mar 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...
2022-03-23
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KQL and ADX – Is this really like SQL?
Hopefully, you’re aware that Azure Data Explorer can be accessed by anybody with a valid Microsoft Account Identity or MSA for short. If you need a one, then hop...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 1
(2022-Mar-04) Looking in the Oxford dictionary, Metadata can be described as "information that describes other information in order to help you understand or use it", as well as Pipeline is "a series...
2022-03-23 (first published: 2022-03-04)
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Daily Coping 22 Mar 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...
2022-03-22
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SQL Server Migration and Upgrade
(This post written by Jon Biggs (t), one of our Senior DBAs) We are currently performing migrations with upgrade of multiple-instance SQL Servers to new servers. The migrations are...
2022-03-22
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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