Matching Events into Pairs
In this article I will be taking you into the world of the pair_matching target. The pair_matching target should connote that this target works on matching like events into...
2015-10-20
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Blog Posts
Matching Events into Pairs
In the last article I showed how to discover all of the settings that are available to a particular Target....
2015-10-20
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Reading Session Data from Memory
In the last few articles I took you through a progression of working with the event_file target from the most...
2015-10-20 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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SSMS 2016 – Compare Execution Plans
Microsoft are releasing regular CTP updates for SQL Server 2016. In the very recent release (CTP 2.4), there is a...
2015-10-20 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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Statistics for the New Data Pro
Next week at the PASS Summit I’ll be presenting a session called Statistics for the New Data Pro.
You can read...
2015-10-20
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Using Extended Events to Detect Connection Pooling
What is connection pooling? Lets start with a definition from MSDN. Connecting to a data source can be time consuming....
2015-10-20
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Data Warehouse Design Challenge: Relating a Temporal Fact Table to a Date Dimension
This past week I ran into an interesting challenge with a client. The data warehouse is capturing testing data for...
2015-10-19
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Kicking the Tires on SSIS 2016
Last week I hosted a webinar in which I reviewed some of the coming changes for SQL Server Integration Services...
2015-10-19 (first published: 2015-10-07)
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Know Before You GO – Target Settings
When adding a Target to a session, a configurable setting may or may not be obviously available for use with the Target. In and of itself, this can be...
2015-10-19
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Know Before You GO – Target Settings
The last few articles have covered various topics for the event_file and ring_buffer target. The topics range from basic queries in...
2015-10-19
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Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
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...
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Creating JSON III
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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;
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