Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting - November 6, 2008
Speaker: Brian Kelley
Midlands PASS Chapter - November 6, 2008 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally...
2008-11-03
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Blog Posts
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
When I came home from work tonight, there waiting on my was my copy of Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008...
2008-11-03
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Sniffing out bogus data
/* Imagine that you have some names and addresses. You are anxious to look at the addresses that may be spurious....
2008-11-03
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The Wise Old Man Part 3
In my previous posts The Wise Old Man Part 1 and The Wise Old Man Part 2 I wrote about...
2008-11-03
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DBA and Doctor
I always feel it is harder to be a DBA than to be a doctor while we are doing almost...
2008-11-02
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How Many People Can a Manager Manage?
This question came up during lunch this past week, and it's a good question. I'll start with my stock 'It...
2008-11-02
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Timing is Everything
I got up this morning, wanting to go through the forums, check on Database Weekly, etc. as a Sunday morning...
2008-11-02
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Auditing for Blank Passwords
Auditing blank passwords in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 proves a bit more challenging than in SQL Server 2000. In...
2008-11-01
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SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Example
I was experimenting with the effects of row and page compression in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
First, I identified...
2008-10-31
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Follow Up to Blog Review Post
A month or so ago I posted Blog Review - Yours & Mine to see what I might get for feedback about...
2008-10-30
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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