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TSQL Challenge 28 - SELECT TOP N articles from each category from a SQL Server 2000 database

The challenge is to write a query that returns the articles to be displayed in the home page of the website. N number of articles from each category is to be selected where N is configured in the Categories table. Each category should select the most recent N articles. ArticleID can be used to identify the most recent articles. An article with a higher number indicates a more recent article.

2010-04-19

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Intro to Entity Framework with SQL Server

I'm a DBA and the developers in my organization are starting to use something called the Entity Framework (EF) in their applications. The developers are telling me that with EF you don't use stored procedures, you simply write .NET code to perform all of your data access. When I use the SQL Server Profiler to take a look at what they're doing, all I see is a bunch of dynamic SQL being executed. Naturally I'm a little skeptical of this, so can you help me to understand what is this Entity Framework?

2010-04-14

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SQL Server Intellisense VS. Red Gate SQL Prompt

Fabiano Amorim is hooked on today's Integrated Development Environments with built-in Intellisense, so he looked forward keenly to SQL Server 2008's native intellisense. He was disappointed at how it turned out, so turned instead to SQL Prompt. Fabiano explains why he prefers to SQL Prompt, why he reckons it fits in with the way that database developers work, and goes on to describe some of the features he'd like to see in it

2010-04-09

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Question of the Day

Creating a JSON Document III

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      1960
If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2 
  json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

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