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A day in the life of a DBA using SQL Monitor: in a 90 second video!
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Running a Python Application as a Windows Service
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Generate Random Dates in T-SQL
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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;
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