Sizing your Azure SQL Database
Do you want to identify the correct Service Tier and Compute Size ( was once known as performance level) for your...
2019-03-20
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Blog Posts
The Curiously Large CASE Statement
A powerful little expression in SQL Server is the CASE statement. The CASE statement has the ability to "transform" data per business rules to help better understand the data...
2019-03-20
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The free SQL to Excel Export tool
Earlier this month I released a new, free tool to export SQL Server query data to Excel files without needing Excel....
2019-03-20
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Two Weeks to #sqlinthecity Streamed
It’s just two weeks until the SQL in the City Streamed starts up again in 2019. I’m ready to travel...
2019-03-20
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Using Indexing To Solve Blocking and Deadlocking Issues
A while back, I was having a conversation about a deadlocking issue and suggested that an index could perhaps help...
2019-03-20 (first published: 2019-03-05)
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Writing a presentation 4: Practice and improvement
My presentation so far is really rough. I need to improve a lot before SQL Saturday Chicago! For now, the...
2019-03-20
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4 Reasons To Avoid VARCHAR(8000)
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When first learning SQL Server, I had the brilliant idea of defining every column on my table as VARCHAR(8000). After all, the VARCHAR datatype...
2019-03-19
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4 Reasons To Avoid VARCHAR(8000)
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When first learning SQL Server, I had the brilliant idea of defining every column on my table as VARCHAR(8000). After all, the VARCHAR datatype...
2019-03-19
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Invoke-Sqlcmd is Now Available Cross-Platform in the SqlServer module
Invoke-Sqlcmd is Now Available for MacOS & Linux in the SqlServer module. The module has been posted as v21.1.18095-preview which means...
2019-03-19 (first published: 2019-03-05)
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Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about...
2019-03-19
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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...
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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