Function Vs. Performance
Recently I was looking through DBA.StackExchange when I saw a pretty simple question that I decided to answer. I went off, set up a test database and some test...
2022-10-03
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Blog Posts
Putting counters in names
It’s not all that unusual, or unreasonable to put a counter in a name. For example let’s say you need ... Continue reading
2022-10-03 (first published: 2022-09-13)
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Being a script magpie
Last month (I ran just a little bit late writing this, it was meant to go out 9/29) Brent Ozar ... Continue reading
2022-10-01
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Community Tools Month 2022 - dbatools
The Prompt In July, Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) asked us to make September Community Tools Awareness Month.
In September, I want you to improve community knowledge about one free...
2022-10-01
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Daily Coping 30 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find a new way to use one of your strengths or talents. I asked someone for strengths recently. Most of those items are things...
2022-09-30
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Data lake architecture
I have had a lot of conversations with customers to help them understand how to design a data lake. I touched on this in my blog Data lake details,...
2022-09-30
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DELETE TOP x rows with an ORDER BY
This was an interesting question that I was asked yesterday and something that I’d never really thought of before. Can you delete the top x number of rows based...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-15)
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The Redgate 100
The Redgate 100 is a list of 100 people that are influential in the database world in a number of categories.I made the list in a few places, which...
2022-09-30 (first published: 2022-09-09)
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Daily Coping 29 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid saying “I should” and make time to do nothing, or do something fun. I’m writing this ahead of time, and I am doing...
2022-09-29
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Why You Need Presentation Skills
And no, the answer is not because you want to be a Microsoft MVP. Multiple surveys have been published over the decades that list “fear of public speaking” as...
2022-09-29
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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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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;
What are the results? See possible answers