Daily Coping 3 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to write down three things you appreciate about yourself. I don’t mind self-evaluation, but I struggle a bit to publicly talk about things I do...
2022-10-03
9 reads
Blog Posts
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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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
40 reads
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
12 reads
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...
Forums
Creating a JSON Document IV
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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
When the schema of an object is changed, SQL Server wipes out the previous...
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