Reblog: December 14 to December 20
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-12-21
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Blog Posts
Recharging Again
I’m off again, taking a week in Steamboat Springs with my family for the Christmas holiday. We’re spending a week...
2012-12-21
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Tempdb Contention That Can’t be Soothed
Tempdb Contention That Can’t be Soothed By Adding Files
Tempdb Contention via Idera diagnostic manager
I’ve talked a lot in the past...
2012-12-21
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The Principle of Least Privilege
One of the tenets of good security is that no person or process is granted more rights than it needs...
2012-12-21 (first published: 2012-12-17)
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On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll explain about that later in this post. This should...
2012-12-20
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On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll...
2012-12-20
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PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012 videos online
All the videos for the sessions at PASS SQLRally Nordic 2012 are available for free. Lot’s of great BI info. Check...
2012-12-20
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Using XQuery to remove duplicate values or duplicate nodes from an xml instance
Sometimes we need to retrieve a list distinct values from within an xml instance or even distinct nodes and this...
2012-12-20 (first published: 2012-12-13)
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Active Directory Group Membership and Powershell
I’ve done my fair share of work with Active Directory over the years and LDAP has helped immensely, it did...
2012-12-19
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Find Nth highest salary using RANKING functions
Suppose you want to find nth highest salary from a table,Then
you can use DENSE_RANK() function.Here i show some example that...
2012-12-19
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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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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