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Breaking the 4th Wall with Unity
Even when creating games, your code has access to environment variables and document files. In this article, Lance Talbert shows how to access files to convince the player that maybe the game knows more than it should.
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Create Azure Data Lake Linked Service Using Azure Data Factory
In this article we walk through a step-by-step example on how to create an Azure Data Lake Linked Service in Azure Data Factory v2.
Adding Rows in Incremental Loads - Level 3 of the Stairway to Integration Services
Learn how to incrementally load new rows into a database from an Integration Services package. MVP and SSIS guru Andy Leonard continues his series on learning SSIS.
Advanced Event Behavior – Level 10 of the Stairway to Integration Services
The tenth article of this series starts to look at more advanced events and how we can use those events to better control and enhance our packages.
Advanced Logging - Level 12 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In this level, Andy Leonard goes into advanced logging techniques for your packages.
Advanced SSIS Workflow Management – Level 8 of the Stairway to Integration Services
In Level 8 of the Stairway to SSIS we look at more advanced workflow management within a package.
An Overview of Project Conversion - Level 14 of the Stairway to Integration Services
As we continue on with our look at Integration Services, this step talks about how to convert projects to the SSIS 2012 format.
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