SQL Server Management Studio: Video Tutorial
SQL Server Management Studio is the all in one tool for developers and DBAs alike to work with SQL Server....
2017-07-25
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Gethyn Ellis
Installing SQL Server: Video Tutorial
In this video I talk you through installing SQL Server 2017 RC1 on Windows Server 2016 virtual machine. It’s a...
2017-07-24
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Building Always On Availability Groups - Part 1
Introduction
By David Postlethwaite
Ensuring that your databases can survive a major outage such as a server failure and can continue to...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
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Dynamic Data Masking
By David Postlethwaite
Introduction
Dynamic data masking is a really useful new tool in SQL Server 2016. Keeping data safe is one...
2017-05-09
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Always Encrypted
By David Postlethwaite
Always Encrypted is new features in SQL Server 2016 and it is also available in Azure SQL Database....
2017-05-01 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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2 Great Courses For Databases Professionals - Deal Of the Week
I received the email from Learning Tree on Wednesday with their weekly offer of courses running in the London Education...
2017-04-21
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What is SQL Server?
I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...
2017-04-20
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Gethyn Ellis:My SQL Server You Tube Channel
Its been an interesting weekend at gethynellis.com I have been attempting to put together a SQL Server YouTubechannel. I’m planning...
2017-04-10
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UK Contracting: Brexit, Dividend Tax and IR35 Having a Huge Impact
At the end of March I wrote a couple of posts discussing the state of IT industry. It looked at...
2017-04-07
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Dividend Tax Changes and Brexit – Damaging to UK IT company creation
In my previous post titled UK Budget 2017 –The Death Knell for Small Business? We scratched the surface in discussing...
2017-04-03 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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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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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