Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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Blog Posts
Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL...
2019-01-29
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Controlling the firewall for an Azure SQL DB via T-SQL
The other day I took a Microsoft Learn course about securing Azure SQL DB. It was really enjoyable and I...
2019-01-29 (first published: 2019-01-16)
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Deploying SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm
In previous posts I’ve run through how to deploy sql server to Kubernetes using yaml files. That’s a great way...
2019-01-29 (first published: 2019-01-16)
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Midlands PASS Meeting – February 5, 2019
Midlands PASS (Columbia, SC) will be hosting Shannon Lowder on February 5, 2019, from 5:30-8:00 PM. He will be speaking...
2019-01-29
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Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom
I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here....
2019-01-29
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Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom
I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here. I’m going to start doing regular live events on...
2019-01-29
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Query tuning: The IN clause
This post will cover the IN clause and another way to rewrite the same logic. I don’t intend to say...
2019-01-29
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Research into Autism in Information Technology
Title: Exploring the experiences of employees on the autism spectrum working in information technology: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
My name is...
2019-01-29
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Research into Autism in Information Technology
Title: Exploring the experiences of employees on the autism spectrum working in information technology: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
My name is Sabrina Ellis, I am the Operations Director here at...
2019-01-29
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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
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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