Sloan Holliday


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The Zero to N Parameter Problem

T-SQL has some well known limitations when working with parameters for a stored procedure, not the least of which is a variable number of parameters. While there are some solutions, they can be cumbersome to work with. Sloan Holliday brings us a creative solution using XML that can solve many issues.

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2006-02-28

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Leveraging XP Excel , XML, and OPENXML for Data Imports

DTS is a fantastic ETL tool and it is often used to import Excel documents. However this can be a manual process in many cases in setting up the package. New author Sloan Holliday brings us a way that you can leverage Office XP's automation facilities and XML to import data into SQL Server.

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2005-11-22

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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  1960
If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

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