T-SQL Tuesday #38 – Standing Firm
Introduction
Welcome back for the 38th installment in the wildly popular blog party for the SQL Server community. This is the...
2013-01-04 (first published: 2013-01-02)
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Blog Posts
What happen, If SQL Server new instance try to use exitsing named instance name?
We all know that SQL Server can have 1 default instance & many named instance.
But I want to check, How SQL...
2013-01-04
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When is a whitespace not a whitespace ?
As I'm sure I must have mentioned in the past, I’m presently involved in a large ALM project at a...
2013-01-04
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 0.2: How to Dig Out of a Data Mining Cave-In
This third part in my series of self-tutorials in SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) was delayed for several weeks due...
2013-01-03
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Checking the Instance Fill Factor
I was reading a post from Paul Randal recently and noted that he recommends not changing the instance’s default fill...
2013-01-03
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Heap might take more space than clustered Index when inserting row
Sometimes when you insert row on heap, even if the page has enough free space, the new row can not...
2013-01-03
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List of Disks and Free Space
Recently I have been supporting our move from TFS from 2010 to TFS 2012. The database instances is stored on a server that I do not have log on...
2013-01-03
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MDS: The Microsoft SQL Server license has expired
When installing Master Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2012 or installing SQL Server 2012 sp1 (and possibly a CU),...
2013-01-03
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MSSQLFUN – Year 2012 Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of...
2013-01-03
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SQL Saturday #194 Exeter
I have read much about SQL Saturday’s but I have yet to attend one, that is about to change. I...
2013-01-03
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Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
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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?”
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After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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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 n;See possible answers