Daily Coping 1 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to decide to lift people up rather than put them down. This is something I am trying to practice more as a coach, pointing out...
2023-02-01
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Blog Posts
Goal Progress for Jan 2023
The grade for January is a D. Details below, but just not making a lot of progress in these areas. I set goals at the beginning of the year,...
2023-02-01
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Introducing… Data On Rails!
Data On Rails is a Data On Wheels project designed to give a platform for up and coming data professionals in the data community. This project is the brainchild...
2023-02-01
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Recovering a TDE Database Without the Certificate
If you don’t have the backups of the certificate and private key from the old server, as well as the password used to encrypt the private key backup then...
2023-02-01
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What is calling my T-SQL scalar function (millions of times)?
In this post we look at a method using Extended Events (XE) to identify what parent objects are calling a given SQL function and how often. The background is...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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When to have multiple data lakes
A question I get asked frequently from customers when discussing Data lake architecture is “Should I use one data lake for all my data, or multiple lakes?”. Ideally, you...
2023-02-01 (first published: 2023-01-23)
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Daily Coping 31 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to take a small step towards and important goal. One of my goals this year was to work on a way to score myself with...
2023-01-31
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Flyway Desktop Projects for My PoC
In a previous post, I set up the basic databases for the PoC project I’m working on. In this next post, we’ll get the Flyway Desktop projects set up...
2023-01-31 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 01-23-2022
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while since I had time to sit down and write out a Monday re-capThis past week was my birthday week. With all the...
2023-01-31
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Daily Coping 30 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to plan something fun and invite others to join you. The fun thing is actually skiing today. My wife and I wanted to get some...
2023-01-30
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Blogs
Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)
Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working...
SSMS Evaluation – future ready
By Vinay Thakur
In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the...
Claude.ai vs Claude API
By Arun Sirpal
You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and...
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Restoring Azure Key Vault Keys and Validating SQL Server TDE Recovery: Level 7 of the Stairway to TDE
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Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document IV
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 YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers