2008-03-03
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Steve Jones
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It's the Bits
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
2008-03-02
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It's the Bits
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
2008-03-02
29 reads
It's the Bits
A woman sues Best Buy for $54million. That's absurd, but her laptop is worth more than the hardware.
2008-03-02
32 reads
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know. This editorial was originally published on Feb 28, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday.
2008-02-29
126 reads
New Benchmarks
There are new TPC-E benchmarks available for SQL Server 2008. And it's not even out!!!!
The 3rd place, the IBM entry,...
2008-02-28
1,480 reads
The February Energy Update
Steve Jones takes a look at the world of energy news and a few projects out at the ranch.
2008-02-28
63 reads
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
34 reads
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
2008-02-28
36 reads
Blast Off
SQL Server 2008 launches today and there's are additional events all across the country coming up.
2008-02-27
74 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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