The SQL Server Security Model, Part 1: Logins [Foundations Friday]
How secure are your databases?
No, not your network. Just your databases. If your company is like most, the strongest security...
2016-01-22
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The Data Files
Foundations Friday starts now
Earlier this month, my friend Tim Ford (b|t) proposed an idea:
A 2016 challenge to technical bloggers: 1 introductory level blog...
2016-01-21
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New Year, New Look, New Focus
Happy New Year, and welcome back! One of the projects I undertook over the holidays was to give the site...
2016-01-12
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[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-23 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
411 reads
[T-SQL Tuesday] Data modeling: The trouble with prefixes
This month, Mickey Stuewe (b|t) hosted T-SQL Tuesday, giving us a topic of “data modeling gone wrong“. This is a fantastic...
2015-11-17
396 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
325 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
216 reads
SQLNewBlogger, Week 3
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been writing much this week.
Last weekend, I didn’t feel well and didn’t...
2015-11-15
222 reads
SQL New Blogger Challenge: Week 1 recap
Thanks to everyone who participated in week 1 of the SQL New Blogger Challenge! Eight posts were written this week...
2015-11-07
423 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