The Secrets of One of the World’s Largest Ad-Free Blogs
There are no secrets about how PostSecret handles millions of visitors.
2024-09-03
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Blog Posts
The Secrets of One of the World’s Largest Ad-Free Blogs
There are no secrets about how PostSecret handles millions of visitors.
2024-09-03
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Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Point in Time Recovery - Azure Edition
Introduction In this post, the third in our series on using T-SQL Snapshot Backup, I will guide you through using the new T-SQL Snapshot Backup feature in SQL Server...
2024-09-03
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Building a Cost-Effective SQL Server Failover Cluster in Google Cloud Platform
Building a SQL Server Failover Cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a powerful way to ensure your databases remain highly available, even in the face of unexpected failures....
2024-09-02 (first published: 2024-08-13)
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Expanding Northwind with Prompt+
I was trying to do a little testing of our subsetter and needed a larger database. So I decided to ask Prompt + to help me with a little...
2024-09-02 (first published: 2024-08-14)
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Using T-SQL Snapshot Backup - Are Snapshots Backups?
Introduction Traditional SQL Server backups can struggle with large databases, resulting in longer backup times and resource contention. T-SQL Snapshot Backup, a new feature in SQL Server 2022, addresses...
2024-09-01 (first published: 2024-08-31)
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A New Word: Flashover
flashover – n. the moment a conversation becomes alive and real, when a spark of rust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers or irony, momentarily...
2024-08-30
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Developer Q&A: Dika Fei of Jelly Pixel Studio
"Let me know where you get your magic pixie dust from!"
2024-08-30
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Friday Flyway Tips: Git Integration in Community Edition
Redgate added Git integration to the free, Community edition of Flyway Desktop. I saw the announcement and decided to make this post to show how this can work for...
2024-08-30
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Python: How to use secrets stored in azure key vault in your Pulumi project
Software Engineers are excited to create Infrastructures just like DevOps Engineers. However, other IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation, relies on domain-specific Languages (DSLs) or JSON/YAML templates to create...
2024-08-30 (first published: 2024-08-15)
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Question of the Day
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 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers