70-457 Reviewer #15 Implement Database Mirroring
This reviewer is part of lesson in Implementing High Availability in SQL Server 2012. This covers about 12% of the...
2013-11-10
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Coffee and SQL
70-457 Reviewer #14 Database and Application Roles
This lesson is part two of lesson Reviewer #13 Managing SQL Server Logins. There is so much to cover about...
2013-11-10
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70-457 Reviewer #13 Managing SQL Server Logins
This lesson covers managing security principals at the instance level. Security principals at this level allows access to the instance...
2013-11-10
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Strategizing your Index Maintenance in SQL Server
Index maintenance is part of the DBA’s life. Surely you have a maintenance task for this somewhere running daily or...
2013-09-28
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Poor Microsoft Doesn’t Understand What Tablets Are For
That’s the title of an article i came across this morning in Slate.com. I am not a big fan of...
2013-09-24
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Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Microsoft has release the CU update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1. To apply this package in your environment,...
2013-09-23
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Brad Shultz's blog on reviewing your database
Reblogged from SQL Studies: This is possibly the best blog I have every read on the subject of reviewing a...
2013-09-18
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CIO Report; 14 things you need to know about Data Storage Management
Reblogged from Imtech ICT UK Blog: Original Article: CIO recently published a detailed article on the 14 things you need...
2013-09-18
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Debugging database mail issues in your SQL Server with T-SQL
Problem. Your database mail suddenly stopped sending out email notifications on completed jobs and tasks. You try to send out...
2013-09-17
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Certifications: What are they good for?
Reblogged from SQL Studies: Since Microsoft decided to drop the MCM/MCA program there has been an enormous amount of discussion...
2013-09-16
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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