Tech Books: Caveat Emptor
These days, we have a myriad of ways to judge whether any given product – like, say, a book on SQL...
2011-01-05
777 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014
Hello and welcome to the first T-SQL Tuesday of 2011!
2010 was a great year for T-SQL Tuesdays, dreamed up and...
2011-01-04
1,290 reads
RTFM365, Week 4
The days are just flying. I have to admit: I may have missed a day or two in the rush...
2011-01-03
491 reads
Beginning Powershell Companion PDF
Howdy all…as is so often the case, I’m studying something – Powershell – and I’m in need of a reference to help...
2011-01-03
2,688 reads
2010 PASS Summit Interviews
It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the...
2010-12-30
1,796 reads
Quick Thoughts on Learning
I’m looking for the attribution for a quote – it’s something I first heard from Sean, and we say it all...
2010-12-29
503 reads
T-SQL: CASE Statement
This is a companion piece to the MidnightDBA video T-SQL: CASE Statement.
In short, a CASE statement is a simplified set...
2010-12-28
2,711 reads
RTFM365, Week 3
Well, my brain has increased by 12.4% in terms of SQL knowledge this week, as a direct result of my...
2010-12-28
760 reads
PASS Summit Speaker Evals – THE ANALYSIS
Rule: No Sushi with Adam within 24 hours of session
I’m inspired by Brent Ozar‘s and Andy Leonard‘s sharing of their PASS...
2010-12-23
778 reads
RTFM365, Week 2 (AND week in review)
Hooboy…the super-structured format of the first two RTFM365 posts just isn’t sustainable for me. I’m going to have to go...
2010-12-20
663 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
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...
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