Intel Westmere-EP Screenshots
CPUID.COM, which hosts the wonderful CPU-Z utility, has a post up that shows where someone has taken a screenshot of...
2009-09-20
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Glenn Berry
Memories Of PanzerBlitz
Back when I was a small tyke, I vividly remember playing an Avalon Hill board game called PanzerBlitz, which was...
2009-09-11
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Proper T-SQL Stored Procedure Formatting
Here is a very good blog post from Aaron Bertrand (another SQL MVP) on how to write and format stored...
2009-09-04
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Nice Discounts On Microsoft Certification Exams From Prometric
Prometric is offering 15% or 20%, or 25% off on selected Microsoft certification exams. The lower level Technology Specialist (TS)...
2009-09-02
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Upcoming Microsoft Gadgets
Microsoft has finally officially announced the long rumored price cuts for the XBox 360 Elite, which will go down from...
2009-08-27
645 reads
Shameless Self Promotion
NewsGator’s marketing department put up a nice post yesterday mentioning myself and Dan Larson, who are both Microsoft MVPs. I...
2009-08-27
675 reads
Intel Calpella Launch At End of September?
According to Gizmodo, Intel is due to launch the next generation Centrino mobile platform, known as Calpella at the end...
2009-08-26
584 reads
Application and Multi-Server Management With SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft has published a good whitepaper that explains the new functionality in SQL Server 2008 R2 that will allow you...
2009-08-26
589 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)
Microsoft has released the July 2009 standalone version of Books Online (BOL) for SQL Server 2008, which you can get...
2009-08-26
662 reads
Cumulative Update 5 For SQL Server 2005 SP3
Microsoft has released the latest Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2005 SP3, which is Build 4230. They also released a...
2009-08-21
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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