On the exorcism of Ghost Records
There was a question earlier on one of the SQL forums as to whether or not Ghost Cleanup overwrote the...
2011-06-07
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SQL In The Wild
PASS Summit Session Votes
I blogged a week ago about the sessions that I submitted for the PASS Summit this year. At the point...
2011-05-18
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On Transactions, errors and rollbacks
Do errors encountered within a transaction result in a rollback?
It seems, at first, to be a simple question with an...
2011-05-17
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Pass summit abstracts
I missed the Pass summit last November for a number of reasons, but I’m hoping I can attend this year....
2011-05-10
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Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
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Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
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Meme Monday: I Got 99 SQL Problems And the Disk Ain’t One
From Tom LaRock’s latest idea…
For a change I’m not going to mention performance (well, not more than once anyway)...
2011-05-02
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To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
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Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-22
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Q & A from 24 Hours of PASS session
Earlier this week I took part in the 24 Hours of PASS live webcast event. There were far more questions...
2011-03-18
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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