Welcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
Have you heard the term "fediverse" and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it's not a cheese pun.
2024-08-02
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Blog Posts
Are Your Secondary Availability Group Read Only Replicas Falling Behind? Are You Seeing PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN Waits?
Are you struggling with a laggy redo and a build up in the redo queue on your readonly secondaries? Are you suffering with high PARALLEL_REDO_TRAN_TURN waits? Then this magic...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-17)
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App
Here's how we used WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS to build our local development app, Studio.
2024-07-31
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Terraform Elastic Jobs
I did a couple of other posts on Elastic Jobs. But now I want to set them up with Terraform. This aligns with how we create infrastructure where I...
2024-07-31 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity
The short answer is: You’ll be eligible for a piece of the pie, plus increased traffic to your website.
2024-07-30
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Calling a REST Endpoint from Azure SQL DB
External REST endpoint invocation in Azure SQL DB went GA in August 2023. Whereas before, we might have needed an intermediate technology to make a REST call to an...
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-23)
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DevOps Days Minneapolis
Once again, I’m off to a conference next week. This time it is DevOps Days Minneapolis. I haven’t been to a DevOps Days event, though I always enjoy DevOps...
2024-07-29
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The Importance of Patch Management to Avoid Downtime
A recent Microsoft outage caused by a bad patch pushed out to Windows instances managed by CrowdStrike has thrown a spotlight on the critical importance of effective patch management....
2024-07-29 (first published: 2024-07-19)
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024–Resources
For my talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024, here are the resources. Slides: Architecting Zero Downtime.pptx GitHub: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime If you have questions, reach out.
2024-07-27
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A New Word: Vicarous
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were in your shoes, eager to watch another actor put their own spin on the character...
2024-07-26
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Blogs
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...
Beware of Generic SQL Server License Keys (What to Use Instead)
By SQLPals
Beware of Generic SQL Server License Keys (What to Use Instead) ...
On Speaking Well
By Brian Kelley
Professor Patrick Winston of MIT used to give a one-hour talk about how to...
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Backing Up Azure Key Vault EKM Key: Stairway to TDE Level 6
By VishnuGupthanSQLPowershellDBA
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Every Database Has Problems
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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;See possible answers