Bilal Ahmed

Bilal Ahmed

Bilal Ahmed is the CTO & Vice President of Engineering at Sonasoft. Bilal has over 10 years of experience in the development and integration of systems and database applications. Bilal has extensive experience with Oracle and SQL databases and has managed over hundred production and development servers across USA, Canada, UK and Australia. Bilal can be reached at bilala@sonasoft.com



Kiran Kumar



Kiran Kumar is the Database Administrator and Sonasafe Technical Architect. Kiran has over 8 years of experience in administering hundreds of high-end Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database Servers. Kiran is an expert in Database Backup/Recovery, Stand-by, Failover Clusters and performance trouble shooting.



Vas Srinivasan



Vas Srinivasan is the Vice President of Marketing at Sonasoft. Vas has over 16 years of experience in Technology, Manufacturing and Research. Vas can be reached at vass@sonasoft.com


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SQL Server Redundancy for SMBs

Building a highly fault tolerant and available SQL Server is expensive and difficult. This brings about unique challenges for small businesses who often lack the resources of large enterprises. Bilal Ahmed and Shivan Bindal discuss the various ways of building redundancy and the challenges of each.

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Backup Scenarios for successful SQL Server Restores and Recovery

SQL Server has a great backup and recovery architecture, but you have to know how to properly configure and use the server to ensure that you will not be seeking new employment anytime soon. A few of the Sonasoft team have written this short piece on strategies for setting up your backup jobs to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster. Welcome new authors Bilal Ahmed, Kiran Kumar, and Vas Srinivasan.

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2004-06-29

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Creating a JSON Document I

I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:

TeamID  TeamName  City          YearEstablished
1       Cowboys   Dallas        1960
2       Eagles  Philadelphia  1933
If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

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