Meetings Are Work Too
So Many Meetings I’ve said it. We’ve all said it.
I can’t get any work done today, I’ve got so many meetings.
I need to be reminded on occasion that for...
2022-09-20
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 19 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to remember if you’re busy, allow yourself to pause and take a break. I’m in the UK today, and at the Redgate...
2022-09-19
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Extended Events for Anything but Query Tuning: bulk_insert_usage
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to directly monitor specific behaviors within SQL Server, like, oh, I don’t know, knowing exactly when, and how, someone is using BULK...
2022-09-19
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Mental Health Bullet Journal – Collect Data to Help Your Mental Health
Purpose This blog and bullet journal was specially created to help me with my tendency to have suicidal ideation, depressive, and manic episodes related to
The post Mental Health Bullet...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-06)
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Unexpected Blocking during the Indexed View Creation
The problem
There was a need to make changes to a table with an Indexed View. Since Indexed Views must be created with SCHEMABINDING, the View must be dropped and...
2022-09-19 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Comment might be free, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen
I have turned off comments on this site. All existing comments have been removed. Even the nice ones from awesome people, and the helpful ones, and the ones answering...
2022-09-16
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Daily Coping 16 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to aim to be good enough, rather than perfect. I find that many of us that work in technology want a solution...
2022-09-16
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Future Data Driven
I was honored to speak at Future Data Driven last year. This year has a great lineup with some fantastic sessions on data related topics. Register today for the...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-02)
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Web Hosting SQL Database Management Made Easy With Linux
If you’ve never used Linux before, you might wonder how to manage a database on a server. Managing a database can be simple or complex, depending on the needs...
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-09-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to make time to do something you really enjoy. I do enjoy life, and I’m lucky that I have the chance to do a lot...
2022-09-15
16 reads
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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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
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