SQL Server TABLESAMPLE
Using TABLESAMPLE in SQL Server
SQL Server has several ways for you to limit the number of records returned from a...
2014-10-28 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Blog Posts
A script to list the DTS connection information for every package on the instance.
For those of you who have moved completely to SQL 2012 & 2014, Lucky you and don’t judge! For the rest...
2014-10-27
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Cumulative Update – 4 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available !
The 4thcumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative...
2014-10-27
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Cumulative Update – 4 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available !
The 4thcumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 4 contains all the hotfixes released since the...
2014-10-27
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Drop and Recreate all Synonyms
Had a quick job the other day restoring a pair of databases under different names which is all straight forward...
2014-10-27
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EXEC sp_executeSQL
Today I am going to talk about the stored proc sp_executesql and the benefits it has over EXEC @SQL. Microsoft actually recommend that you use the sp_executesql stored procedure...
2014-10-27
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #106
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-10-27
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Minion Reindex is here
We released Minion Reindex by MidnightDBA unto the world, accompanied by a press release on SQLServerCentral.com, and people have responded so incredibly positively. We’re quite...
2014-10-27
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Reducing the size of the distribution database & improving transactional replication performance: Part 3
Part 1 of this series of articles looked at the intricacies of SQL Server transactional replication, and made the observation that the...
2014-10-27 (first published: 2014-10-20)
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Remove Witness from SQL Server Database Mirroring
1) After connecting to the principal server instance, Right-click the database & go to properties. Select Mirroring from left side option. 2) To remove the witness, delete its server...
2014-10-27
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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...
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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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;
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