SQL Saturday #731 Athens 2018
In less than two weeks (on 16th June) it’s time for SQL Saturday Athens and I’m proud to announce that...
2018-06-04
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Cláudio Silva
- Website: https://claudioessilva.eu
SQL Saturday #731 Athens 2018
This will be my first SQL Saturday ever both as speaker and attendee outside Portugal so I’m especially thrilled and excited to be part of it!
I will be presenting...
2018-06-04
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Using CAST() function with User-Defined Data Types…Did you know…
I’m converting some Firebird database code to T-SQL and I’m seeing a lot of code that doesn’t work in the...
2018-05-10 (first published: 2018-05-02)
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Learn, Evolve and Giving Back - TSQL Tuesday #102
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Riley Major (b | t) and he encourage us to talk about how we are helping by giving back to...
2018-05-08
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Learn, Evolve and Giving Back – TSQL Tuesday #102
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Riley Major? (b | t) and he encourage us to talk about...
2018-05-08
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dbachecks – Setting temporary configuration values
dbachecks has seen the light about two months ago. As I'm writing this blog post, the module counts with more...
2018-05-03 (first published: 2018-04-24)
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Using CAST() function with User-Defined Data Types...Did you know...
I’m converting some Firebird database code to T-SQL and I’m seeing a lot of code that doesn’t work in the same way that SQL Server. No surprise - I...
2018-05-02
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dbachecks – Going parallel – Cut off your execution times
On one of the last clients I have worked, I have implemented dbachecks in order to get the state of...
2018-04-26
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Is this command broken? I can't see some properties! - DefaultDisplayPropertySet, Get-Member and Select-Object *
Every now and again I see some people complaining about not getting the properties they want when using a PowerShell command.
For instance, someone was using the Get-Service command to...
2018-04-23
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Did you know…you can’t do arithmetic operations with datetime2 like with datetime?
I’m currently working on a SQL code migration from Firebird to SQL Server and I hit an error that I...
2018-04-11 (first published: 2018-04-06)
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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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