Service Broker is a technology built into SQL Server and utilized by the engine for its internal asynchronous processing. The great thing about Service Broker is that its functionality is exposed so we can build our own custom data integrations. Deanna Dicken introduces you to the concepts needed to create a service broker integration.
2012-07-30
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This article shows a few simple techniques to summarize table data using T-SQL.
2012-07-27
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This component needs little explanation. It generates random integer (DT_I4) and string (DT_WSTR) data and places them in the pipeline. You specify how many columns of each you would like and for any string columns you pass a fixed length value. You then need to specify how many rows in total you require to be generated. This component is used by us to do testing of the pipeline and components downstream.
2012-07-27
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SMO can be a valuable tool for working with SQL Server when you don't have access to all the tools that come with the platform. In this article, SMO helps solve an issue with a SQL Server.
2012-07-26
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Sparse columns and column sets in SQL Server 2012 provide a way of accomodating the less-structured data that has always proved to be tricky for the relational model. They can be used very effectively where the attributes are sparse for any given entity and very numerous across all entities. Seth Delconte shows how to use them.
2012-07-26
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Free training in New York. Come learn about SQL Server, meet other pros, and then enjoy a night in the city.
2012-07-26
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Red Gate Software is looking to offer a new monitoring service and is looking for opinions and ideas in making it happen.
2012-07-25
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We’ve all heard about Extended Events and how they can help troubleshoot SQL Server performance, connectivity, and locking problems, but they seem so difficult to implement using T-SQL. Isn’t there a better way to implement SQL Server Extended Events?
2012-07-25
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On Thursday July 26th 12PM noon Central, Ami Levin will revisit some of the fundamental principles of relational databases – normalization rules, key selection and some controversies surrounding these rules.
2012-07-25
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This article demonstrated the steps which you must follow to gracefully truncate the publisher database transaction log file by resetting replication.
2012-07-24
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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 TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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