Notes from PASS 2007 - Part 2
Denver is a great location for a conference. The convention center is two blocks from the 16th street mall - must...
2007-09-19
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Blog Posts
Technical Speaking - Again
One of the points mentioned in the volunteer meeting on Tuesday was that it makes a lot of sense to...
2007-09-19
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THE Reception
After the PASS opening, which I dropped in long enough to get a beer, we had the SQLServerCentral.com party.
It seemed...
2007-09-19
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Notes from PASS 2007
I attended the morning portion of the volunteer/chapter meeting today and got to put some names with faces for some...
2007-09-18
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Technical Speaking - Some Misc Thoughts
Last week I taught 'Successful Technical Speaking' for the first time - it's a free four class I put together for...
2007-09-17
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Training
I'm kind of stunned. I have asked 6 people to go to the PASS conference over the last 4 days...
2007-09-17
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Off to the PASS Summit in Denver
I'm flying out tomorrow for the event and looking forward to it, nice break from the office/work routine, a chance...
2007-09-16
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$4
So I got a final count of referrals from the PASS conference yesterday and it was 183, so thanks to...
2007-09-14
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Stealth Updates
Editorial coming next week, but so far this is amazing to me. Microsoft's stealth updates of their client update tool....
2007-09-14
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The Challenges of Podcasting
OK, here's one take. Not sure if it's any good, but it's a start.
No live editorials yet. I've been working...
2007-09-13
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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...
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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
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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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