Installing SQLServer for SCCM 2012 – Some points to note on patch levels
The prerequisite SQLServer 2008 R2 patch level for System Center Config Manager 2012(SCCM) is SP1 with Cumulative Update 6 (CU)
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2012-09-05
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SQLSailor.com
SSMS Report Error – Index(zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of argument list !
SSMS reports are one of the best ways to pull some great deal of Server level or Database level information...
2012-09-04
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VM Guest Memory – Watch these numbers !
I have been using VMware vSphere client for a while now and the person who inspired me to use this...
2012-08-15
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How many SQL Servers you run within your environment ? – MAP could be your best bet to answer this question !
A blog post about Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit was in my list for quite a while and today I decided to write...
2012-08-08
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Can I still buy per socket licenses for installing SQL2008 R2 ?
Many times I have seen this question coming from users - Can I still buy per socket licenses for installing SQL2008...
2012-08-07
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SQLSailor is exploring(Part6) – Understanding firewall concepts for SQLDatabase on Windows Azure
Security is one of the most discussed topics for any cloud deployment plans and no organisation would like to compromise...
2012-08-03
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SQLSailor is exploring(Part5) – SQLDatabase Dashboard on Windows Azure
Well, that is one impressive dashboard of Audi RS4! It gives huge amount of flexibility for the driver to control...
2012-08-03
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SQLSailor is exploring(Part4) – Basic DML,DDL operations with SQL Databases on Windows Azure
In this post we will review some basic DML,DDL capabilities of SQL Database on windows Azure.
This post is in continuation with my...
2012-08-01
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Capacity considerations while moving SQL workloads to a Virtual world !
One of the most basic capacity considerations involved while planning to move SQL workloads to a virtual environment is to understand the...
2012-07-26
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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...
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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;
What are the results? See possible answers