My Reading list
In the tradition of many others, I decided to add a reading list to my professional site. The reading list...
2006-02-16
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Blog Posts
Testing, Testing, and More Testing
I've been out of pocket and off the forums for the last few weeks as
we've had several major tasks where...
2006-02-15
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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
I saw this on Greg Hughes' blog
and wondered, "What in the world?" So I took a look. It's one of...
2006-02-10
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PASS 2006 Call for Presentations
For those of you who are interested in speaking at PASS in November, the submission site is open: http://passew.prod.web.sba.com/callpapers/CallPapers.cfm?conference_id=15 .
I encourage...
2006-02-09
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Added reviews to my website
I've been thinking about doing this for a whole and I finally got
around to building a reviews section into the...
2006-02-08
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And Bad Writing
I haven't had time to research the extent, but someone reported plagiarism and the author admitted the code, while "from...
2006-02-06
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Good Writing
I left at lunch to hit the gym and then meet a friend. Afterwards I stopped by Starbucks to do...
2006-02-03
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Responsibility
This is very interesting.
I've often thought that blogs were a great source of information, but it is more unvetted than...
2006-02-03
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Upgrading your databases link
I got the link from Kirk about the couse: http://www.maxtrain.com/classes/classInfo.aspx?id=SQLADV .
2006-02-02
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Upgrading your databases to SQL Server 2005 class
I attended a two day class this week that was fantastic. It was taught by the author of the course material,...
2006-02-01
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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