Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager 6.2 Review
A look at Idera's Diagnostic Manager and how it can help you diagnose performance issues on your server instance.
2010-10-05
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Articles
Auditing with Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 - Part 1
The first in this three part series on using Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 introduces the toolkit and gets started with install and using it.
2010-10-05
1,671 reads
October Question: Tell us about your favorite experience as a participant in the SQL Server community.
There is a thriving world-wide DBA community that offers many opportunties meet other DBAs, to learn from others, and to...
2010-10-05
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TSQL Challenge 40 - Convert string representation of numeric values fr
This challenge involves converting numeric values from binary format to hexadecimal format.
2010-10-04
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Standardize data storage for geography spatial data type in SQL Server
Geography is one of the spatial data types introduced in SQL Server 2008. One of the characteristic of the geography data type is that it can accommodate any supported geometry based on any supported spatial reference system in the same field. So if the data that is stored in a column of geography data type is not standardized, it can be a very tedious and resource intensive task to figure out the geometry and spatial reference system associated with each value. To deal with this issue, we need to standardize the data stored in a field of that has the geography data type and in this tip we will look at how to deal with this issue.
2010-10-04
2,316 reads
The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity
Many IT Pros can relate to the the Lone Ranger. With the aid of but one trusty side kick, the...
2010-10-04
2,238 reads
Partitioning in SQL Server 2008
This article discusses about 'Partitioning'. In this detailed article, a particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of Partitioning in SQL Server.
2010-10-01 (first published: 2009-04-29)
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PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important?
It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2 should be an important tool for your work
2010-10-01
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SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-10-01
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SQL Saturday#52 – Colorado Recap
This past weekend was the first SQL Saturday in Colorado, and it went very well. I think everyone enjoyed it,...
2010-10-01
1,391 reads
Blogs
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...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Creating JSON III
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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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