Three new speakers will be taking to the stage at this year's PASS Data Community Summit for the New Stars of Data Track. Sessions will be delivered by Haripriya Naidu, Vitalija Bartusevičiūtė, and Jarid McKenzie!
2024-09-13
In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and a bit of history about why it is like it is. After establishing this, I will discuss a bit about how you can (and should) use the LIKE operator in your CHECK constraints to strengthen your data integrity.
2024-09-13
This next article examines the impact of transaction sizes on the performance of our Delta Parquet tables.
2024-09-11
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This article looks at how you can use event sourcing to maintain persistent and asynchronous communication between microservices.
2024-09-11
2024-09-09
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Like XML, JSON is an open standard storage format for data, metadata, parameters, or other unstructured or semi-structured data. Because of its heavy usage in applications today, it inevitably will make its way into databases where it will need to be stored, compressed, modified, searched, and retrieved.
2024-09-09
I got a new laptop recently and instead of installing SQL Server, I decided to try and use containers to see how well this works. This article looks at how I got this working relatively quickly. The short list of things I did is: Install Docker Desktop Create a location for data/logs/etc. Create a docker-compose […]
2024-09-06
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Learn about rounding values using T-SQL and how the ROUND function works compared to creating a user-defined function for bankers rounding.
2024-09-06
I don’t get it. I’ve given this feature one chance after another, and every time, it takes a smoke break rather than showing up for work.
2024-09-04
I would like to share my recent experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) where AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime become corrupted and how did I recover it. I still don't know how the Integration Runtime (IR) was corrupted. However, if it happens, then this article will help you to solve the issue. Problem In general, the ADF AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime should […]
2024-09-02 (first published: 2021-11-05)
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By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, Meagan Longoria, who graciously agreed to help...
By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
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When the schema of an object is changed, SQL Server wipes out the previous...
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers