Friday Flyway Tips–Seeing Pending Migrations
I find that quite a few people using Flyway will end up with a lot of migration scripts over time. While you can certainly re-baseline and split scripts into...
2023-11-03
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Blog Posts
SQL Server query runtime is not everything
SQL Server query developers, listen up! Query execution time is not everything you should be worried about. You need to examine the parse and compilation time for each of...
2023-11-03 (first published: 2023-10-18)
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Finding Object Dependencies in SQL Doc
I had a customer recently ask if they could find out which objects are dependent on others using SQL Doc. This post shows how to do that. Using SQL...
2023-11-01
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SQL Server Backups are Not a High-Availability Solution
Please continue doing your backups! Backups are Disaster Recovery, yes…but not HA. Some will argue with this (in the comments most likely), but I broadly define “High Availability” as...
2023-11-01 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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Using the Pure Storage PowerShellSDK2 - Part 3 - Getting Performance Data from FlashArray
Welcome back to the second installment of our blog series on using the Pure Storage PowerShell SDK2. In this post, we’ll learn how to retrieve performance data from FlashArray...
2023-11-01 (first published: 2023-10-18)
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Final
In this final and summary post on the blog series of Common Mistakes in SQL Server I have pen down about auto growth, use of null values, implicit conversion...
2023-10-30
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Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 1: Cloning Tables
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m starting up a similar series, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not...
2023-10-30 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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T-SQL Tuesday 167 – Encryption and Data Protection Roundup
Huge thanks to everyone who responded to my invitation to blog on Encryption and Data Protection for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I got what I hoped for, which was...
2023-10-30 (first published: 2023-10-17)
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A New Word: Funkenzwangsborstellung
funkenzwangsborstellung – n. the primal trance of watching a campfire in the dark. I am not a big camper, but 3-4 times a year we usually go out with...
2023-10-27
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Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 5
Last week, in the post Common Mistakes in SQL Server - Part 4 I explained about the Auto Growth configuration in SQL Server and how it can adversely impact....
2023-10-27 (first published: 2023-10-16)
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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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