Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Loads (Webinar)
For data warehouse professionals, data change detection is is a central part of what we do. Accurately detecting new, changed,...
2016-03-01
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Tim Mitchell
Using Custom File Delimiters in SSIS
File-based ETL is usually dull. Most systems generate (or expect to consume) files that are delimited, with a common field...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-05)
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Using Change Tracking in SSIS
Recently, I wrote about how to get started with SQL Server change tracking, and I demonstrated a design pattern I...
2016-01-22
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Using SQL Server Change Tracking for Incremental Loads
Earlier this week I wrote about the basics of change tracking in SQL Server, and showed how to get started...
2016-01-28 (first published: 2016-01-20)
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Getting Started with Change Tracking in SQL Server
Change tracking for SQL Server is a flexible and easy-to-use technology for monitoring tables for inserts, updates, and deletes. In...
2016-01-18
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New Gear: Lenovo Yoga 900
For several months I’ve been eyeing a replacement for my aging Surface Pro 2. Although I’ve been pretty happy with...
2016-01-11 (first published: 2016-01-06)
2,423 reads
Technical Dogma
Humans are creatures of habit, and I suspect that engineering/technical types are even more so. We find something that works...
2016-01-04
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The Discomfort Zone
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I read a book entitled The Phoenix Project. This book has been in my Kindle library...
2015-12-04 (first published: 2015-12-01)
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 1
Today, I’ll be live blogging the SQL PASS 2015 keynote. Today is the third day of the PASS Summit, and...
2015-10-28
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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
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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