A short writeup on the first Immersion Event from SQLskills, a week long class designed to bring real world skills to DBAs and developers that want to become highly skilled SQL Server professionals.
2011-03-18
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services includes a number of predefined tasks that implement common administrative actions to help with data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL). While in a majority of cases they are sufficient to deliver required functionality, there might be situations where an extra level of flexibility is desired.
2011-03-17
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The thing that I most enjoy about going to conferences, SQLSaturdays, and user group meetings is the people I get...
2011-03-17
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I was really excited about the concept of Shared DataSets when they were introduced. My excitement diminished a little when...
2011-03-17
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Once, when disk space was at a premium, DBAs fought hard to keep the size of their database down. Now there seems less motivation to 'fight the flab' of a database. Fabiano Amorim was watching television recently when the subject matter, cosmetic surgery, gave him the theme and inspiration for this guide to keeping your database fit and trim.
2011-03-16
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I was recently asked a question on restoring a database using PowerShell with the following requirements
Take a database backup file...
2011-03-16
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2011-03-16
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How can I change the collation of SQL Server 2008? Learn how in this short tutorial.
2011-03-15
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Once again SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at SQL Connections in Orlando this March. Read about the event and our speakers and join us for SQL Server training in Florida.
2011-03-15 (first published: 2011-01-19)
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We have been doing some more work with SQL Azure lately, so I have put together a small collection of...
2011-03-15
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By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
By James Serra
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...
We suffered a SPAM attack from May 1-6, which unfortunately corresponded with time off...
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
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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