PASS Summit 2017 Day 2
It’s day 2 of the PASS Summit. Yesterday was a whirlwind of a day, after my early-morning post-Halloween trip to...
2017-11-02
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Blog Posts
Query Store – SQL Server 2017 vs Azure SQL Database
I love the query store, it is powerful (can be dangerous) , easy to use and packed full of information. I...
2017-11-02 (first published: 2017-10-24)
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SQL PASS Summit 2017 Day 2 – Keynote Notes and Ideas
This morning, Dr Rimma Nehme tells us the story of the birth of Azure Cosmos DB, a global, scale-out database system. At the beginning of the talk, I can already...
2017-11-02
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Avoiding confusion with SQLCMD variables
SQLCMD variables can be a useful way of having changeable parameters for your SQL scripts, allowing you to specify the...
2017-11-01
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Azure SQL Database Automatic Tuning – Questions Answered
I used to be on the fence regarding whether or not Automatic Tuning should be on as the default when...
2017-11-01
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Changing The Stars
If you’ve never seen the movie “A Knights Tale” I recommend that you do. In the movie, the character William...
2017-11-01
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Changing The Stars
If you’ve never seen the movie “A Knights Tale” I recommend that you do. In the movie, the character William...
2017-11-01
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Contained Databases
Today's post is in regards a feature that was released with SQL Server 2012, it hasn't gotten the attention or...
2017-11-01
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DB Mail error “File attachment or query results size exceeds allowable value of 1000000 bytes”
Issue : One email report is working fine from long time but suddenly it failed today with below error.
Error :
Msg 22051,...
2017-11-01
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Gimmicks that work: XE Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio
I have a favourite new feature of SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SSMS), and that’s XE Profiler, which allows you to...
2017-11-01
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Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Forums
Breaking SQL Server for disaster recovery practice
Hey all. I understand if this gets taken down due to the subject matter...
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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 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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