How to tell if Change Data Capture (CDC) is working as expected
I’m not sure how many of you use Change Data Capture (CDC) on your instances, but I’ve had to support it for a while now and I thought I’d...
2022-01-20
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Blog Posts
A new chapter begins
In 2012 when I originally founded Born SQL, I never imagined I would find myself a five-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award, let alone be offered...
2022-01-19
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Azure DB for MySQL – Single server vs Flexible
When you start the build process for MySQL you will be shown the below screen, the question is what option would you select? It really does depend; I don’t...
2022-01-19
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Creating a new User-Defined Data Type–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across a question on user-defined data...
2022-01-19
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Daily Coping 19 Jan 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...
2022-01-19
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Finding the First Day of the Year–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. While working on the question from Monday, I...
2022-01-19 (first published: 2022-01-05)
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T-SQL Query to find Orphan data and log files of SQL Databases
Are you a DBA? Then you'll love this free T-SQL script. This script helps you find orphaned data and log files of SQL Databases.
2022-01-19
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T-SQL Query to find Supported Compatibility Level Values in SQL Server
The question came up on the forum - how do I find all the possible values for a specific compatibility_level in SQL Server? Let's check .
2022-01-19
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What permissions are required for temporary tables?
Managing permissions is a constant issue for Database Administrators, but rarely do DBAs consider permissions for tempdb. Everybody’s looking for something, but how often do you get requests for...
2022-01-19 (first published: 2022-01-06)
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 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...
2022-01-18
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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