Incremental Load - TSQL
For my first technical post in a short while I thought I would look at something I have worked on...
2010-08-23
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Blog Posts
Last Place? Doesn’t Matter.
As the debate rages on about the PASS election I want to share my thoughts about being a candidate that...
2010-08-23
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Looking at the Numbers
Andy Leonard has done an awesome job collecting information and putting the numbers together for the recent candidate decision for...
2010-08-23
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N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT
SELECT is this kind of Swiss Army Knife
SELECT is our bedrock, our foundation, our now-and-forever T-SQL multitasker…and it’s one of the...
2010-08-23
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Notes on SQLSaturday #51
We started the event with a speaker/volunteer dinner at the home of Kevin Kline (former PASS President, current MVP,and all...
2010-08-23
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PASS Elections
There are a lot of things I’d like to say about the PASS elections. I was on vacation last week...
2010-08-23
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Security Panics
I went to host the Red Gate SQL Source Control webinar recently and had a snag. I downloaded the GoToWebinar...
2010-08-23
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SQL Saturday #28 - Lessons Learned
After spending a week in Tampa, FL at a client site I've had some time to unwind and reflect back...
2010-08-23
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SQL Server Trivia
Think you know SQL Server past and present? Here are the next-to-impossible questions I asked at the SQLSaturday #51 Stump...
2010-08-23
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SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
2010-08-23
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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
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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;
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