Handling Missing Instances when Looping with Pester
In my previous posts about writing your first Pester Test and looping through instances I described how you can start...
2017-11-30
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Blog Posts
Hit Refresh
I read Satya Nadella’s Hit Refresh recently, and it was a very enjoyable book. He’s had an interesting journey and...
2017-11-30
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I’m Presenting Two Linux Sessions on One Day!
On 12/13 I’m presenting two, back to back, sessions on SQL Server on Linux online. So you can attend from...
2017-11-30
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I’m Presenting Two Linux Sessions on One Day!
On 12/13 I’m presenting two, back to back, sessions on SQL Server on Linux online. So you can attend from anywhere!
Let’s go through both!
First, on 12/13 at 1PM Central,...
2017-11-30
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Information Measurement with SQL Server, Part 2.4: Conditional and Joint Entropy
By Steve Bolton
…………Since this series on using SQL Server to implement the whole gamut of information metrics is wide-ranging in...
2017-11-30
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Resources from the PASS community this coming month
Even though it is December, I noticed a lot going on for FREE in the PASS Microsoft Data Technology community....
2017-11-30
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Sessions, Temporary Objects, and the Afterlife
For thousands of years theologians have offered various thoughts on the question of what happens when we die. Does some...
2017-11-30 (first published: 2017-11-20)
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SQL in the City 2017
It’s almost time for SQL in the City 2017, coming Dec 13, live from Cambridge, UK. I’ll be traveling over...
2017-11-30
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SQL Server Data Tools 2017 and TFS Integration
I’ve blogged a while back on how SSIS 2017 was finally here. Not much has changed; there is still no...
2017-11-30
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Upgrading an expired SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Edition
It's happened to almost everyone. Someone installs Evaluation Edition and now you need to upgrade
it to a licensed copy using...
2017-11-30
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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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