When do Distribution Statistics Get Updated?
Statistics objects are important to us for allowing SQL to make good estimates of the row-counts involved in different parts...
2017-07-05
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Blog Posts
Celebrate Your Independence with Free Tools
Been working on this blog post for a while, thought I'd share today an inventory of tools I use regularly...
2017-07-04
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How to Automatically Purge Historical Data From a Temporal Table
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Temporal Tables are awesome.
They make analyzing time-series data a cinch, and because they automatically track row-level history, rolling-back from an "oops" scenario doesn't mean...
2017-07-04
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Loading All CSV Files with PowerShell
I ran across Denis Gobo’s post about working with names from Social Security cards and wanted to play with the...
2017-07-04 (first published: 2017-06-23)
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Reflecting on the Last Year of Microsoft’s OpenSource Technologies
This past year has certainly been interesting in the world of Linux. Microsoft has taken a new strategy and is...
2017-07-04 (first published: 2017-06-24)
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24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Session
I’m proud to announce that I’ve been selected to present a session in this year’s 24 Hours of PASS: Summit...
2017-07-03
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Conditionally Retry a Failed Job
We have jobs that run in the early morning to load data to our data warehouses and other systems, and...
2017-07-03 (first published: 2017-06-23)
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Creating the SSIS Catalog
If you are building SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, using the SSIS catalog as a deployment target is usually...
2017-07-03
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Database Mirroring Needs FQDNs
A quick basic post, and one that I’ve forgotten. Since blogging is a good way to remind myself of things,...
2017-07-03
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Monday Coffee: Alerts & Checks
Hope you all had a good weekend, the Lions won so I’m pretty happy.
Over the weekend I was thinking about...
2017-07-03
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Blogs
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...
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
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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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