How to Avoid Some Common Developer and DBA Mistakes
In March, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What is the biggest mistake/problem you ever found on...
2010-04-14
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Blog Posts
Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
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Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Decided to scrap the pizza this month after one too many late deliveries from Pizza Hut, went with sandwich platters...
2010-04-14
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Well, we had our April meeting on Tuesday the 13th. Let's just say it wasn't our most successful meeting, and...
2010-04-14
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Should I Go? SQL Saturday plans for the year.
There have been quite a few more SQL Saturday announcements this week for new cities. I enjoy attending these events,...
2010-04-14
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SNESSUG 4/14/2010
Tonight’s Southern New England SQL Server Users group is sponsored by Idera. Our presenter is Scott Abrants of Iron Mountain....
2010-04-14
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SQLBits to be Held this Friday in London
Just as a reminder, if you have registered to attend SQLBits this Friday, April 16, at the Church House Conference...
2010-04-14
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The SQL Server Community
I attended, and spoke at, the inaugural meeting of the Seacoast SQL Server User’s group last night. There were about...
2010-04-14
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Why I Have Had a Hard Time Adopting PowerShell
PowerShell has been out for a while. When it first came out, I went and grabbed a copy and tinkered...
2010-04-14
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A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
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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