Spinach and Database Development- SQLSatExeter Keynote
Last weekend, we held our SQL Saturday event in Exeter. It was a brilliant event for many reasons but we...
2015-04-30
1,101 reads
SQL DBA With A Beard
Instances and Ports with PowerShell
Just a quick post and a day late for #SQLNewBlogger There are some excellent posts on that hashtag and I...
2015-04-22
1,382 reads
Checking SQL Server User Role Membership with PowerShell
SQLDBAwithTheBeard:
Please go and check the New SQL Bloggers posting here https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sqlnewblogger There are some brilliant new and older bloggers adding great value...
2015-04-24 (first published: 2015-04-14)
5,506 reads
PowerShelling SQL Saturday Sessions to the Guidebook app
Following on from my previous post about parsing XML where I used the information from Steve Jones blog post to...
2015-04-07
784 reads
Parsing XML Child Nodes and Converting to DateTime with PowerShell
As part of my organiser role for SQLSaturday Exeter (Training Day Information here and Saturday Information here) I needed to...
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-21)
6,905 reads
Speaking at PowerShell Virtual Chapter and SQL Cardiff User Group this month
Just a quick post to say that I will be speaking at the PowerShell Virtual Chapter meeting this Thursday at 4pm...
2015-03-17
552 reads
Triggering a System Center Configuration Manager deployment task
A slightly different topic today.
Once you have built up knowledge, you become the person that people ask to solve things....
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-18)
6,536 reads
Show AutoGrowth Events with Powershell to CSV
This week I was reading Pinal Daves post about Autogrowth Events
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/02/03/sql-server-script-whenwho-did-auto-grow-for-the-database/
as it happened I had a requirement to make use...
2015-02-25 (first published: 2015-02-15)
6,260 reads
Uploading a Source Folder to Azure File Storage
Azure File Storage enables you to present an Azure Storage Account to your IaaS VMs as a share using SMB....
2015-02-09 (first published: 2015-02-01)
7,664 reads
Twas 2 Days Before Xmas or Thank you SQLFamily
Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office,
not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice.
With merriment going on...
2014-12-23
534 reads
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