A DMV a Day – Day 29
The DMV for Day 29 is sys.dm_exec_connections, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about the connections established to this...
2010-04-29
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Blog Posts
A Identity Bug
Someone asked an interesting question recently. If they had this code:
if OBJECT_ID('aa') is not null
drop table aa
create table...
2010-04-29
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News
If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining...
2010-04-29
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PASS Update #29
By the time you read this we’ll have completed the transfer of the SQLSaturday web sites and data to PASS...
2010-04-29
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SQLSaturday #41 - Atlanta Session Recap
Last Saturday, April 24, I presented my session, Why I Use Stored Procedures and You Should Too, at SQLSaturday #41-Atlanta, see...
2010-04-29
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When was SQL Server last restarted?
How do you tell when your SQL instance was lasted restarted?
I was reading a post by Joe Webb (Blog|Twitter) about...
2010-04-29
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A DMV a Day – Day 28
The DMV for Day 28 is sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for each pending I/O request...
2010-04-28
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Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008 – The Complete Presentation
From the PASS 2010 Summit Survey: 29% of people want a presentation on backup compression. OK, here it is.
Turn it...
2010-04-28
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How to Tell When SQL Server Started?
As a consultant, I’m regularly asked to diagnose and solve problems when I have incomplete or conflicting information given to...
2010-04-28
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Social Networking and SQLSaturday
I think we do a pretty good job of delivering technical content, but not such a great job at getting...
2010-04-28
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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