February #Meme15 – LinkedIn
It’s the afternoon of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post. Remember, these are due on or around...
2012-02-16
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Blog Posts
Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly
SSIS Expressions
Expressions in SSIS are great. They allow you to create dynamic values for all sorts of stuff like variables,...
2012-02-16 (first published: 2012-02-13)
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PowerPivot and Market Research
This past Tuesday, February 14, I was invited to discuss how technology can be used to help analyze data for...
2012-02-16
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Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest...
2012-02-16
570 reads
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular query
Learn a new language (Ruby)
The...
2012-02-16
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Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
1. Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular
...
2012-02-16
4 reads
Tools to Monitor Performance of SQL Server
To gather statistical information on how a server is performing requires, you need to use operating system tools to gather...
2012-02-16
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Comparing Inline and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions
Table-Valued Functions. What a wonderful addition to SQL they make. They take parameters, do some work, and return a result...
2012-02-15
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Dynamic Add/Remove file in Mirroring/Logshipping
Yesterday we were having discussion on high availability feature Mirroring and Log shipping with my colleagues (Amol & Alankar) on whether...
2012-02-15
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Excerpt from Upcoming Book by Grant Fritchey Called Learn “SQL Server in a Month of Lunches”
Later this year, a new book by author Grant Fritchey, called Learn SQL Server in a Month of Lunches, will...
2012-02-15
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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