SQL Server Disk Space Emergencies
One of the things I’ll see happen often with SQL Server instances is that the system will run out of...
2014-12-15 (first published: 2014-12-08)
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Steve Jones
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2014-12-15
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The Last Job
Steve Jones contemplates employment and the future of the last job he'll have. This Friday he asks you if this might be yours.
2014-12-12
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Citizen Programmers
Steve Jones finds the Salesforce platform interesting and notes we have lots of "citizen programmers" doing work with data.
2014-12-11
140 reads
T-SQL Tricks – Customizing SSMS Templates with Parameters
I wrote briefly about templates in Management Studio (SSMS), and showed the default templates that come with SQL Server. I...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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Converting Dates
I ran across a post recently where someone had dates stored as characters (never good), but also in this format:...
2014-12-10
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Holiday Struggles
The sporadic schedule of a day or two a week this holiday season has been a struggle for Steve Jones.
2014-12-09
181 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back
It’s that time of month again, the time when we have a day where everyone writes on the same topic.
This...
2014-12-09
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We Still Need Human Judgment
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
2014-12-08 (first published: 2010-06-23)
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SQL in the City 2014 – Washington DC
I’m off today, traveling to SQL in the City 2014 – Washington DC to meet Grant and deliver another database delivery...
2014-12-04
648 reads
Blogs
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
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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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