Getting Things Done: The Zone
Cross-Posted from A Goal-Keeping DBA blog:
I'm reading Getting Things Done because of Brent Ozar's excellent blog post, How I Use...
2009-12-07
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Blog Posts
Good Programmer = Lazy & Dumb?
Alternative title for programmers using C-derivatives and Java:
Good Programmer == Lazy & Dumb?
I read this blog post, Why Good Programmers Are...
2009-12-07
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LinkedIn Update and LinkedIn Vanity URL’s
Was just doing my more or less weekly update on LinkedIn and saw that – finally – just hit 500 connections. Growth...
2009-12-07
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List of 50 Interesting Web Sites from Time Magazine
Ran across the Time Top 50 web site list and thought I’d share. I’m fond of lists, especially about web...
2009-12-07
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MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 4
This is part four in the series of blog posts that will help in building a library of calculations you...
2009-12-07
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Microsoft Student Career Portal
Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...
2009-12-07
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PCI Encryption
It surprises me how often I see people posting questions about what type of encryption to implement for credit card...
2009-12-07
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Traveling and Airtran
I am a pretty frequent traveler, as you would imagine. Running a consulting company, and being on it's principals assets...
2009-12-07
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements for December 2009
Next week, I have the honor of presenting two different sessions on SSIS. These 2 events are the last speaking...
2009-12-07
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Verizon Wireless and Data Integration FAIL
I recently was working with a client and as sometimes happens, I could not get on their network. Not a...
2009-12-07
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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