Giving Back – #TSQL2sday
T-SQL Tuesday, which was started by Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) and is now starting its 6th year, is hosted by a...
2014-12-09
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SQL DBA With A Beard
Making a Change Log Easier With PowerShell
Having a Change Log is a good thing. A quick and simple place to find out what has changed on...
2014-12-16 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational Insights
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-24)
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Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on...
2014-11-28 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Generating T-SQL Randomly with Powershell
I have a lab on my laptop running various servers so that I can problem solve and learn and recently...
2014-11-05
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Emailing Disk Space Alerting With Powershell
A DBA doesn’t want to run out of space on their servers, even in their labs! To avoid this happening...
2014-11-04
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Number of VLFs and Autogrowth Settings Colour Coded to Excel with PowerShell
So you have read up on VLFs
No doubt you will have read this post by Kimberly Tripp and this one...
2014-10-06
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PowerShell Snippets A Great Learning Tool
When I talk to people about Powershell they often ask how can they easily learn the syntax. Here’s a good...
2014-09-09
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Find Out Which Indexes are on which Filegroups using PowerShell And How To Find Other Information
A short post today to pass on a script I wrote to fulfil a requirement I had.
Which indexes are on...
2014-09-07
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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
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