House Price Predictions @ PASS 2015
The PASS speakers were announced a quite a number of weeks ago now for PASS 2015 in October – and I felt pretty damn honored to be one of the 160 or...
2015-09-07
5 reads
SQL Sentry Grows in the UK and Beyond
Announcing two new UK-based SQL Sentry global technology evangelists. Please help me welcome John Martin and Richard Douglas.
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2015-08-07
13 reads
Professional Development – A Recipe for Success
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Joe Webb’s father-in-law spent most of his adult life as a cardiologist. That’s a highly specialized and highly technical area in the field of medicine that...
2015-08-06
8 reads
DBTA – StretchDB, a Cool New Feature in vNext SQL Server
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. When it comes to cloud-based database management, there are really only two players: Amazon, the value leader,...
2015-08-05
12 reads
Professional Development – What a Difference 60 Years Makes
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. In 1957, the Soviet-made Sputnik streaked across the sky in low earth orbit. It was clearly visible to millions of concerned Americans. The Soviet government...
2015-07-30
13 reads
DBTA – IT Employers Must Adapt to the Looming DBA Shortage
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In the first of this three-part series, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing...
2015-07-29
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2015-07-24
4 reads
Professional Development – Set the Bar High
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Henry Ford is reported to have once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.” That’s great insight. Too often...
2015-07-23
10 reads
DBTA – Does the Looming Shortage in DBAs Spell Opportunity?
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In my last column, available HERE, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing new...
2015-07-22
11 reads
Implementing Partial Backups and Restores (via Leveraging Partitions)
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 5. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-07-06
13 reads
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
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It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers