A Mess of Nested Transactions
Transactions are an area that I often find are used badly, or not used at all. Transactions without any error...
2015-11-03
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Blog Posts
Columnstore Indexes – part 72 (“InMemory Operational Analytics”)
Continuation from the previous 71 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have previously written on the Rowstore...
2015-11-03
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Configuring the Azure SQL Database Firewall
Azure SQL Database is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a relational database for use over the internet....
2015-11-03
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DLM Dashboard moves to 50 Databases – For FREE
I love DLM Dashboard. It’s the product that I’ve written myself, in various ways since SQL Server 6.5. My versions...
2015-11-03
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Git Push in SQL Source Control
I’m excited. Git support is growing in SQL Source Control and the release recently contains Git push/pull support. If you...
2015-11-03 (first published: 2015-10-22)
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Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 2.1: Implementing Probability Plots in Reporting Services
By Steve Bolton
…………In the first installment of this series of amateur self-tutorials, I explained how to implement the most basic...
2015-11-03
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Histograms and Events
The last few articles covered the pair_matching target and some uses and details that go along with it. For a...
2015-11-03 (first published: 2015-10-22)
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Looking Back at Summit 2015
Last week was the 2015 PASS Summit in Seattle. It’s the largest SQL Server specific gathering of data professionals in...
2015-11-03
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PASS Summit 2015 Recap
Last week was the annual PASS Summit in Seattle. The Summit is the predominant educational and networking event for SQL...
2015-11-03
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ScriptDom Visualizer
Writing code to generate TSql using the ScriptDom is hard. There is a seemingly bewildering array of objects you can...
2015-11-03
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers