T-SQL Tuesday #73 - Not Running CHECKDB is Naughty!
This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Bradley Balls (blog/@SQLBalls) and his topic of choice is “Naughty or Nice.”
(If you...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-08)
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Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
What Do You Mean There is No Current Database Backup?!?
Yet another late night/early morning tale...
The LOG backups for multiple databases on a server failed overnight (not all databases, but...
2015-12-03
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We Are All Responsible
Today we all received an email from PASS's president Tom LaRock (blog/@SQLRockstar):
PASS Anti-Harassment Policy ReminderIt is unfortunate that I have...
2015-11-24
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CHECKDB - The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation
…so the job failed….again…you know the one – that darn Integrity Check job: Executing query "DECLARE @Guid UNIQUEIDENTIFIER EXECUTE msdb..sp_ma...".: 100% complete ...
2015-11-18 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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SQL Server Training
Brent Ozar’s group (http://www.brentozar.com/) just announced a pretty crazy set of “Black Friday” deals:
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/11/announcing-our-2015-black-friday-sale-on-sql-server-training/
Insane sales if you can be one...
2015-11-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #72 - Implicit Conversion Problems
This month T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mickey Steuwe (blog/@SQLMickey) and her topic of choice is “Data Modeling Gone Wrong.”
(If...
2015-11-12 (first published: 2015-11-10)
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PASS Summit 2015 Recap
Last week was the annual PASS Summit in Seattle. The Summit is the predominant educational and networking event for SQL...
2015-11-03
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Deleting Files Older than X Hours with PowerShell
(aka "OMG I can't believe I am actually finally writing a #PowerShell blog post").
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I currently have a situation at a...
2015-04-15
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Availability Groups - Where Did My Disks Go?
The TL;DR - beware of Failover Cluster Manager trying to steal your non-shared storage!
--At a client recently two availability groups on...
2015-04-02
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POSTPONED to 02/11 - Speaking at the Omaha SQL Server User Group *Tomorrow* Night!
UPDATE - due to weather conditions today (snow this AM and sub-zero cold tonight) we are postponed to next Wednesday 02/11...
2015-02-03
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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;
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