Ted

Lead DBA with over 25 years’ experience delivering high-availability, secure SQL Server solutions across banking, government, and enterprise sectors.

Experienced in designing and supporting mission-critical environments, including Always On, DR strategy implementation, performance optimisation, and enterprise-scale backup and recovery planning.

Proven track record leading DBA teams, mentoring engineers, setting database standards, and working closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver stable and compliant data platforms.

Strong focus on automation, security, and proactive monitoring to minimise risk and improve operational efficiency. Passionate about modernising legacy environments and building resilient, scalable database architectures.
  • Interests: Writing Books, Walking,Kdramas
  • Skills: SQL,C#

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SQL Art 2: St Patrick’s Day in SSMS (Shamrock + Pint + Pixel Text)

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Question of the Day

The string_agg function

We create the following table and then insert some records in it:

create table t1 (
   id int primary key,
   category char(1) not null,
   product varchar(50)
);

insert into t1 values
(1, 'A', 'Product 1'),
(2, 'A', 'Product 2'),
(3, 'A', 'Product 3'),
(4, 'B', 'Product 4'),
(5, 'B', 'Product 5');
What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id, 
category, 
string_agg(product, ';')
                 over (partition by category order by id
                 rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1;

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