SQL Saturday 392 – Atlanta, GA
Have you been to Atlanta, Georgia ? Nope? Well it’s time you plan that trip and come see me speak May...
2015-04-30
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John Morehouse | Sqlrus.com
Quick Script: Finding Database Owners & Security Admins
Security Is Everybody’s Responsibility
Recently, while diagnosing a permissions issue on a Production database, I realized that I didn’t really have...
2015-04-23
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2015 Program Committee
Last year, I was very much honored to be selected to deliver a pre-con with my friend brother Chris Shaw (B|T). I...
2015-04-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #65 – Failing Over with PowerShell
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is being hosted by Mike Donnelly (B|T). The topic of choice is a fantastic one,...
2015-04-14
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Detaching a Database – File Security Gotcha
I’ll admit it, there are times where detaching a database is the best way to get something accomplished, but it...
2015-04-09
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Procedure Creation – Correct Syntax, Wrong Database
Recently, on a Friday evening, we released an update to one of our core applications. As expected, it went smoothly...
2015-04-02
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Database Restores – Zeroing Out Log Files
I recently came across a question on the #sqlhelp Twitter feed that I thought was interesting. The question pertains to...
2015-03-26
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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
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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