Fingers Crossed on a Short Flight
I'm heading to Seattle in a couple hours. Bags packed, I've completed my run for the day, and getting ready...
2009-11-02
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Blog Posts
Follow Up to Maintaining Security and Performance Using Stored Procedures Part I – Using Execute As
This is a follow up to Maintaining Security and Performance using Stored Procedures Part I – Using EXECUTE AS because of...
2009-11-02
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Free Books at Red Gate Booth at PASS Summit
Red Gate Software will be handing out a limited number of free paperback books at their booth at the 2009...
2009-11-02
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Living with DTS on SQL Server 2005 and 2008
The DTS support in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 is excellent (almost). Typically the packages and jobs do not need...
2009-11-02
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Minor Setup Issue with SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows 7
Microsoft’s Peter Saddow, who is a Program Manager on the SQL Server Setup team has a post in the SQL...
2009-11-02
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PASS Summit 2009 – Day -1
The official start date for the summit is Tuesday, but trust me, everything kicked off on Sunday when registration opened....
2009-11-02
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DB Audit Challenge #1
Take the DB Audit Challenge - Intermediate - DB Audit Challenge #1
For those of you who have been following my recent blogs,...
2009-11-01
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PASS Summit In-flight Note
I'm on a Delta non-stop flight from Atlanta to Seattle for the PASS Summit. This is the first time I've...
2009-11-01
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SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Day Zero
For me, today was the start of a six-day SQL Server adventure at the PASS Summit in Seattle. The day...
2009-11-01
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Stored Procedure Call Tree
I was reading a post by Linchi Shea in which he demonstrates a Perl script to Find the complete call...
2009-11-01
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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