Vista, Day 5
I broke down and bought my first Vista machine last Sunday, an HP Pavilion from a local box store. From...
2008-11-21
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Blog Posts
2008-11-20
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MSSQLTips.com: Connecting to SQL Server with a Bad Logon Trigger
Shortly after I gave my presentation Trigger Happy Database Security down in Jacksonville for SQL Saturday #3, I received an...
2008-11-20
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My first blog post -- starting small
I've been hanging around the SQL PASS Summit this week and came to a realization, I do know something...
I don't...
2008-11-20
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PASS 2008 Day 3 (Wed)
Went to the intro and keynote yesterday, even though I know better. They weren't bad, they just weren't great. I...
2008-11-20
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PASS 2008 Day 4 (Thursday)
I couldn't muster the enthusiasm for a keynote today, so I went for a walk, stopping first for a doughnut...
2008-11-20
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PASS Summit 2008
It’s been a great week at PASS thus far and many others have written on their experiences so I’ll do...
2008-11-20
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PASS Summit 2008 - Thur PASS Opening
The morning keynote opening was good. We had video of the conference playing here and there, the election candidate positions...
2008-11-20
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PASS Summit 2008 - Tom Casey
He's the manager for BI, the General Manager, and he's here to talk about the challenge and promise of Pervasive...
2008-11-20
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A Dark Picture - Management Presentation
It was really Andy Warren's presentation, but he usually ropes me in to add a different perspective on the various...
2008-11-19
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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