Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By
In a previous blog written back in June, I showed you how to use the interactive sort option on a...
2010-11-04
1,841 reads
BrianKMcDonald
Help! I Can’t Connect to Analysis Services in SSMS
A few months ago, I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 and chose to install SSIS, SSRS and SSAS as well....
2010-11-02
1,602 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-10-29
3,572 reads
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-10-28
3,355 reads
SQLBIGeek's Function Friday - Return First Day of Quarter
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the first of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. I understand that I am posting...
2010-10-24
1,416 reads
SQL Saturday 49 Delivery Mechanisms - Presentation Slide Deck and Files
This past weekend, my wife and I travelled down to Orlando for SQL Saturday 49. I wasn't planning on presenting,...
2010-10-20
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When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-16
1,548 reads
Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL
I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want...
2010-10-16
1,152 reads
Andy Warren’s Word Counter
I typically don’t blog about other people blogs, because quite frankly I don’t like giving summations of the work someone...
2010-10-14
646 reads
List Indexes For Database using TSQL
A while ago, I showed you how to find out what indexes were on a table using the GUI. Today,...
2010-10-14
34,689 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
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I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
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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