T-SQL Tuesday #154–Thinking about SQL Server 2022
This month is an interesting T-SQL Tuesday party, as Glenn Berry hosts and asks us to think about the upcoming new release of SQL Server. Sometime later this year,...
2022-09-13
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 12 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to forgive yourself when things go wrong. A theme of being better to myself, starting with last Thur and Fri. What’s gone wrong for me?...
2022-09-12
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How to keep up with technology
(Side note: There is a “subscribe” button on the right side of my home page if you wish to receive my blogs updates via email as soon as they...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups
On September 29, 2022 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups. High Availability with previous versions of SQL Server was always complex: you had...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Daily Coping 9 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to let go of self-criticism and speak to yourself kindly. This tip follows on nicely from yesterday’s tip, just the other side of that one....
2022-09-09
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How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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SQL Saturday Baton Rogue Recap
Thank you to everyone who came out and saw me present at the SQL Saturday in Baton Rogue! It was a blast to see smiling faces and not be...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-23)
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Daily Coping 8 Sep 2022
Today’s tip is to notice the things you do well, however small. I think I have a lot of room for improvement, and it’s easy to self-criticize and find...
2022-09-08
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A simple lab to demonstrate the danger of NOLOCKs in INSERT statements
The READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level, which the NOLOCK table hint activates, is not to be trusted when it comes to writing data. You are not always protected by error...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-25)
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Daily Coping 7 Sep 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-09-07
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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