Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Performance Tip: CTAS vs INSERT SELECT
When loading tables in Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) via T-SQL, one will soon encounter the need to load data...
2012-10-15
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday #145 Nashville – Recap
This month has been wild. I’ve been out of town quite a bit for work, and started the month with...
2012-10-15
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Using SQL Server 2012 FileTables
Reblogged from Basit's SQL Server Tips:
SQL Server 2012 allows you to store file/directories in a special table called FileTable that...
2012-10-15
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Database Design Contest at the 2012 AITP Region 3 Student Conference
Had a great Friday in Lafayette, LA on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. 31 different teams submitted database...
2012-10-14
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SQL Server # TSQL to Convert STRING in PROPER format
Problem Statement
SQL Server has got in-built functions to convert the given string into LOWER() or UPPER() format but it does...
2012-10-14
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When a Covering Index no longer covers
I received an email from my boss on the morning supervisors approve timesheets. He stated that they are complaining about...
2012-10-14
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CSSUG Oct2012 - My Session Presentations and Scripts Are Available Here
Chennai SQL Serve User Group Meet for Oct'2012 happend today at Microsoft Traning Centre located in Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai.
Its pleasure seeing enthusiastic...
2012-10-13
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Presentation DAC: PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning
The San Francisco SQL Server User Group – Oct 10 2012 Thanks you everyone for attending session, here is the presentation...
2012-10-13
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Presentation DAC: PowerShell: Automating SQL Stats Collection for Performance Tuning
The San Francisco SQL Server User Group – Oct 10 2012 Thanks you everyone for attending session, here is the presentation...
2012-10-13
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2012-10-13
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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...
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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
By VishnuGupthanSQLPowershellDBA
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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