Trace Flag 2371 and Statistics
One of the issues that I see published often on forums like SQLServerCentral is the advice to update statistics on...
2012-10-22
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Blog Posts
What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes?
In my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables, I’ve been going through the compatibility views in SQL Server...
2012-10-22
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Does a Clustered Index really physically store the rows in key order?
The Myth
One misconception that I see a lot deals with how data is stored in a clustered index. Specifically – is...
2012-10-21
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SQL Server Locking Overview
Locking is a necessary part of transaction processing when working in a multi-user Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) environment. You use...
2012-10-21
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Ask The Unicorn: SQL Saturday Registration Is Closed
Right before the last Minnesota SQL Saturday, I was asked a few questions about learning about SQL Server which led...
2012-10-20
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A Minor Problem of Access
A colleague sent this - they received a trouble ticket where a user who had "all access" to the database couldn't...
2012-10-19
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
2012-10-19
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fn_OBJECT_TYPE
I recently started using OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME and OBJECT_ID functions; unfortunately I really could have used OBJECT_TYPE but it doesn’t exist...
2012-10-19
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysforeignkeys
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-19 (first published: 2012-10-16)
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MDX #19 – There is more to do to concatenate row values into column
Continuing from MDX #18 – Easy to concatenate row values into column in MDX.
I have not accomplished the goal of concatenating...
2012-10-19
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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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