Manish Kumar

Manish is a Data warehouse/Business Intelligence Solution expert. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications with 11+ years of experience resulting from associations with organizations such as Mahindra Satyam, Verizon, ITC Infotech and Aditi Technologies. While associated with these companies, he has had the opportunity to work with well-known names such as Microsoft (R&D, AdCenter India) and Danske Bank Denmark. He is MCITP (SQL 2008 Business Intelligence Developer) certified and his skills and expertise include Design and Architecture definition for BI/DW solutions. He has successfully implemented various BI & DW projects with coverage across ETL, Data Modeling, OLAP, Data Analysis, Data Quality, Analytical Reporting, Data Mining, Dash Board design and implementation as well in fine tuning complex queries and databases.

Manish’s hobbies include writing and reading Hindi poems, cooking, hiking , sports, philanthropy, sharing technical knowledge and listening to music.

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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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