Changing Your SQL Server Name
Is the name of your SQL Server correct?
Why Worry About The Server Name In SQL?
When the name of the actual...
2014-10-31
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WaterOx SQL
Changing Your SQL Server Name
Reading Time: 2 minutesIs the name of your SQL Server correct?
Why Worry About The Server Name In SQL?
When the name...
2014-10-31
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Find all triggers in a SQL Server Database
What Are Database Triggers?
Do you know what triggers lurk in your database?
Triggers can be implemented to enforce business rules or...
2014-11-05 (first published: 2014-10-24)
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Find all triggers in a SQL Server Database
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What Are Database Triggers?
Do you know what triggers lurk in your database?
Triggers can be implemented to enforce...
2014-10-24
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Untrusted Foreign Keys
What is a Foreign Key?
Do you trust your foreign keys?
A foreign key is a link between 2 tables that is...
2014-10-23 (first published: 2014-10-17)
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Untrusted Foreign Keys
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What is a Foreign Key?
Do you trust your foreign keys?
A foreign key is a link between...
2014-10-17
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I Must Be Doing Something Right – MVP Award
I am extremely excited to announce that I have just received the Microsoft MVP award for SQL Server for 2014.
For...
2014-09-30
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I Must Be Doing Something Right – MVP Award
I am extremely excited to announce that I have just received the Microsoft MVP award for SQL Server for 2014.
For...
2014-09-30
951 reads
Video: Walk & Talk #003 – RPO
What is the RPO?
And why does it matter?
Join me as I walk through Jefferson Patterson Park’s Indian village and discuss...
2014-09-30
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Video: Walk & Talk #003 – RPO
What is the RPO?
And why does it matter?
Join me as I walk through Jefferson Patterson Park’s Indian village and discuss...
2014-09-30
857 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