Enabling Query Store
Performance tuning in SQL Server is one of the main jobs a DBA has. Starting with SQL Sever 2016 a...
2018-12-05
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Blog Posts
Flagrantly ignoring the 10% rule
My friend Michael J. Swart has a rule of thumb he calls Swart’s Ten Percent Rule. If you’re using over...
2018-12-05
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SQL Data Discovery and Classification in SSMS 17.5
Data exploration and documentation can be cumbersome, classifying data can be one of those tedious but necessary things. With the...
2018-12-05
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UDL files and connection strings
A co-worker showed me a really neat trick the other day. We deal with a lot of connection problems and...
2018-12-05
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Useful T-SQL queries and scripts to work in SQL Server
This post is about some queries and scripts that I use in my daily work on SQL Server. Some of them are self-explanatory, i.e. the name of the query/script...
2018-12-05
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Useful T-SQL queries and scripts to work in SQL Server
This post is about some queries and scripts that I use in my daily work on SQL Server. Some of them are self-explanatory, i.e. the name of the query/script...
2018-12-05
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What were you thinking (hidden relationship)???
What were you thinking?
Have you ever been working on some code from another person, and you end up scratching your...
2018-12-05 (first published: 2018-11-20)
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Azure SQL Database – Firewall Rules
If you decide to use IP addresses to control what services have access to your Azure SQL Database, then understanding...
2018-12-04
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Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical Tier Now Available
The business critical tier for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now available. Customers needing a higher level of high...
2018-12-04
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High CPU and Query Store, A Story of Spinlock Heartache
This is going to be a quick look at an issue that we recently encountered, I’m not going to go...
2018-12-04 (first published: 2018-11-20)
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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
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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Creating JSON III
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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;
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