T-SQL Tuesday #18 Coming Next Week
Other than the week I hosted it, I’ve been caught off guard by T-SQL Tuesday most months. This time I...
2011-05-03
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Blog Posts
2011-05-02
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2011-05-02
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Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
Hi,
Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...
2011-05-02
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Foreign Keys Help Performance
I have always put FKs into my database for data integrity purposes. I’ve worked on enough applications that didn’t have...
2011-05-02
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I’m an ACE
I am happy to announce that I’ll be joining Idera’s Advisor & Community Educator for SQL Server program.
Getting More Involved
I’ve always...
2011-05-02
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I’ve got 99 Problems, but a disk ain’t one
Tom LaRock has a new meme for Meme Monday. It’s all about the problems caused in your system other than...
2011-05-02
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
Earlier today, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) tagged me for his Meme Monday post. The question for today is: how many...
2011-05-02
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
Today is Meme Monday and is a little thing that Thomas LaRock (Blog | Twitter) has started. Today he has started...
2011-05-02
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
G’day,
Apparently “Meme Monday” was started by Thomas Larock (Blog | Twitter) , as a way for getting people writing. I haven’t been...
2011-05-02
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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