SQL Saturday 467 – Precon – Query processing and internals
Im not doing a tremendous amount of public speaking this year and concentrating on more professional matters, however im pleased...
2015-10-04
300 reads
Dave Ballantyne
Getting out of the ground with TSQL Smells.
At SQLBits I had a number of conversations with a number of people over TSQL Smells, my open source project...
2015-03-23
684 reads
Increasing ColumnStore compression ratio for archival and “Cold storage”
At my present client, part of the task I have to under take is to re-engineer the “Cold Storage”. This...
2015-03-17
359 reads
SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
481 reads
Non use of persisted data – Part Three
A long time ago I looked at some reasons as to why persisted computed columns ( and therefore indexes on those...
2014-11-02
363 reads
Please please tell me now…
.. Is there something I should know, sang Duran Duran many moons ago when I was young and before I knew...
2014-08-15
398 reads
Reasons why your plans suck : No 56,536
I have been working with SQL server for more years than I really care to mention and like to think...
2014-04-12
388 reads
T4 Support in SSDT
Sometimes a piece of technology passes you by completely, T4 templating happens to have done that for me. On tuesday night,...
2014-03-29
1,149 reads
Whats This Command Bar ?
One of the challenges I faced while creating my TSQL Smells visual studio (SSDT) add in, was trying to find out...
2014-03-13
320 reads
On the move
Its been a fair few years since I started blogging on SQLBlogCasts and the time has now come to find...
2013-04-14
621 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
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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;
What are the results? See possible answers