Rayis Imayev

My personal journey in an intricate world of data and continuous effort to make it more structured and well understood can be found in this blog.

I live and work in Canada - see my profile on LinkedIn.

Data Modeling at your fingertips

(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema is better than a database model communicated by a multitude of data scripting text objects.
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2021-08-16 (first published: )

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Azure Function Drain mode

(2021-Jun-16) Recently, Google started to notify me that my blog website (http://datanrg.blogspot.com/) had been experiencing some ‘Server (5xx)’ errors. Nothing has been changed on my side, and I’m not sure how...

2021-06-23 (first published: )

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Blogs

Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger

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Rolling Back a Broken Release

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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0

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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...

Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform

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Creating JSON III

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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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