Quick tip: Count table rows in a database, and locate those rows in the data files.
Here are a couple of quick database and table level queries that I have found useful lately.
How many rows in...
2012-10-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2012: New Business Intelligence features
SQL Server 2012 has many new Business Intelligence (BI) features and enhancements. Here are my top 12, in order of...
2012-10-30
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The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Shared Consolidated Storage Systems
Shared Consolidated Storage Systems – A Brief History
Hey, “Shared Consolidated Storage Systems” did you just make that up? Why yes, yes...
2012-10-30 (first published: 2012-10-26)
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Transaction Log Internals - My session ingredients
Still 18 days to go for my session on Transaction Log Internals for Chennai SQL Server User Group (17-Nov).
While seeing...
2012-10-30
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Amazon Kindle Fire Released
Amazon has released the latest version of it Kindle – the Kindle Fire HD.
It seems amazon are moving away from a...
2012-10-29
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Countdown to PASS Summit 2012 – 8 to Go – What Is PASS Anyway?
Eight days to go. So after going to my first conference, I was surprised that I did not know more...
2012-10-29
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Geographic Failover/Redundancy (and DR)
Today we await the arrival of a 100 year storm that threatens to surge New York harbor and the Long...
2012-10-29
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #4
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-29
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Microsoft Surface RT Review
Last Friday, pretty much on impulse, I decided to go to the Microsoft Store in the Park Meadows Mall in...
2012-10-29
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Monitor Blocking with Extented Events in SQL 2012
1. Set the "blocked process threshold (s)"
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 ;
GO
RECONFIGURE ;
GO
sp_configure 'blocked process threshold', 10 ;
GO
RECONFIGURE ;
GO
here we...
2012-10-29
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Blogs
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document I
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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