Blueprint for consulting riches
As a business intelligence architect consultant, I have met many people out there who are as good or better than...
2012-07-09
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James Serra's Blog
SQL Server table partition switching
If you are using partitions in SQL Server, be aware that “partition switching” is a great feature to quickly truncate partitions...
2012-07-05
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Comparing DirectQuery and ROLAP for real-time access
In the multidimensional model in SSAS, there is a storage mode called relational OLAP (ROLAP), which is the multidimensional solution...
2012-07-02
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Microsoft Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) is a knowledge-driven data quality product that is new to SQL Server 2012. The...
2012-06-27
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How to use a multidimensional cube with Power View
The requirements for Power View state that it can only use tabular models as data sources. So if you want to...
2012-06-25
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SQLBits X videos online
All the videos for this popular conference are online or will be soon (69 of them). Take a look at the...
2012-06-20
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Tabular query modes: DirectQuery vs In-Memory
When using the Tabular model in SSAS, the deployment options screen offers four choices for “Query Mode”: DirectQuery, DirectQuery with...
2012-06-18
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TechEd North America 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2012 and they are available for free! What a...
2012-06-15
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Presenting Tips
Having done a number of presentations, I have accumulated a list of items to go over before each presentation to...
2012-06-06
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Microsoft Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft. Master Data Services is...
2012-06-08 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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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
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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...
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Can someone please explain what happens?
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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
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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