Manual v Automation
I’ve got my work cut out for me. This week is SQL in the City 2017. One of the sessions...
2016-12-12
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Blog Posts
Monday Coffee 2016-12-12
Speaking and presenting
One of my biggest fears is public speaking and judging by this article, I’m not alone.
However it’s something...
2016-12-12
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OPTIMIZE FOR Hints When Parameter Sniffing is Turned Off
While presenting recently and talking about dealing with bad Parameter Sniffing, I got the question; what happens to OPTIMIZE FOR...
2016-12-12
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SQL Server DBA Tips that Can Save Your Ass
On November 9th I presented a session in the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter. The title of the session was...
2016-12-12
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SQLBits 2017 In April
I’m getting excited, with the announcement that SQL Bits 2017 is scheduled. The conference goes back to Telford, which I...
2016-12-12
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The Eleven Days of Festivus
It’s that time of the year again – the Festivus season is upon us! In the next few weeks, families all...
2016-12-12
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Up Next, SQL PowerShell for SSAS!
I’ve been wanting to demo cool-easy ways to do things in SSAS with PowerShell for a long time but haven’t gotten around to working on it much. Well, it’s...
2016-12-12
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Up Next, SQL PowerShell for SSAS!
I’ve been wanting to demo cool-easy ways to do things in SSAS with PowerShell for a long time but haven’t gotten around to working on it much. Well, it’s...
2016-12-12
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Up Next, SQL PowerShell for SSAS!
I’ve been wanting to demo cool-easy ways to do things in SSAS with PowerShell for a long time but haven’t...
2016-12-12
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Aggregate Functions
Aggregate Functions
MINReturns the smallest value in a given columnMAXReturns the largest value in a given columnSUMReturns the sum of the...
2016-12-11
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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...
Forums
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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