T-SQL Tuesday #101: Essential Tools
What are the tools you love to use? What are the tools that maybe need a little sharpening? What tools...
2018-04-10
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #101: My Essential SQL Server Tools
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic comes from Jens Vestergaard (b|t) who is asking us about our essential SQL Server Tools.
I’ve...
2018-04-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #101: My Essential SQL Server Tools
This T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Jens Vestergaard (b | t), and we are asked to share our favorite...
2018-04-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #101: My Essential SQL Server Tools
This T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Jens Vestergaard (b | t), and we are asked to share our favorite...
2018-04-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #101–Tools
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to you by Jens Vestergaard. The invitation for #101 is for essential SQL Server...
2018-04-10
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Using Elastic Query to Support SQL Spatial in Azure SQL DW
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Recently we had a requirement to perform SQL Spatial functions on data that was stored in Azure SQL DW. Seems simple...
2018-04-10
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Using Elastic Query to Support SQL Spatial in Azure SQL DW
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Recently we had a requirement to perform SQL Spatial functions on data that...
2018-04-10
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# Not the GDPR News -t minus 10 days
# Not the GDPR News -t minus 10 days
There is ten days to go and there are still some seats left for...
2018-04-09
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Code Snippet Cove on the #SQLPrompt Treasure Map
I’ve been away a bit in the last week with personal and family commitments. As a result, I feel a...
2018-04-09
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Encrypting SQL Server Database Backups
We all go to great lengths to make sure that our databases are secure (or at least I really hope...
2018-04-09 (first published: 2018-04-04)
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Blogs
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers