VMUG Ireland End of Year Event
This Thursday, November 30th, is the next VMUG Ireland event…our end of year social meetup! We’re going to be down in BrewDog Dublin: – THREE LOCKS SQUARE, 4, DUBLIN...
2023-11-27
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Blog Posts
Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-26)
📰 News Deploy a Delta Sharing Server on Azure Want to learn how to deploy a DeltaSharing server on Azure, but don’t know where to begin? Why Structured Streaming...
2023-11-26
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A New Word: Emodox
emodox – someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness. I had...
2023-11-24
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Creating a Self Referencing FK in a CREATE Statement–#SQLNewBlogger
I had written about a FK in a CREATE TABLE statement recently, but the second half of this was that after the original question, the person asked if this...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-06)
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Memories of the PASS Data Community Summit 2023
I’ve been to a lot of conferences, and one that I’ve probably attended the most is the annual PASS Data Community Summit. It’s been listed under various names, but...
2023-11-24
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Query Store Reports Time Intervals
A great question came up over at DBA.StackExchange regarding the query store reports time intervals: How can SQL Server’s Query Store Reports show data for minute-length intervals, when “Statistics...
2023-11-24 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 2
To quickly summarize where we are, we started testing Microsoft Fabric with a 10GB tar file, which took over 20 hours to extract, and now...
2023-11-24
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Crosstream - Efficient Cross-Server Joins on Slow Networks in Python
Earlier this year I presented at PyCon 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT on the topic of "Efficient Cross-Server Data Joins on Slow Networks with Python". You can watch...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-13)
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Get Certificate Details for SQL Encryption In-Transit Using PowerShell – UPDATED
In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use PowerShell to retrieve the details of the certificate being used for encryption-in-transit, aka TLS encryption. I have received...
2023-11-22 (first published: 2023-11-14)
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T-SQL Tuesday #168–Roundup
Last week was the 168th T-SQL Tuesday, which I hosted. The invitation is here. I didn’t get much of a chance to check out the posts as I was...
2023-11-21
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Blogs
PlanTrace: Stop Reading Redshift EXPLAIN Plans. Start Seeing Them
PlanTrace: Stop Reading Redshift EXPLAIN Plans. Start Seeing Them Introducing PlanTrace — a free, browser-based...
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
Forums
SPAM Issues May 2026
We suffered a SPAM attack from May 1-6, which unfortunately corresponded with time off...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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