Damian is Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience. Now trying to share the passion and knowledge among others. He runs the blog with his daughter as she is really passionate about technology

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Weekly reading 10#

New week has started. 1/2 of the Coding Family Team has exams at school today. We were all busy last weeks…. But now it ends! And this must be...

2019-04-08

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Weekly reading #9

Good morning, today is 1st April. Maybe it is a good time to say that for example SQL Server was acquired by its main competitor on the market? No,...

2019-03-31

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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
8Kirin
I run this code: 
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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