Daily 21 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-21
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Blog Posts
What I’ve Been Up To
Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
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Azure Synapse Analytics November updates
Microsoft recently came out with a blog on a bunch of new features available for Azure Synapse Analytics (see Azure Synapse Analytics November 2021 Update), and I wanted to...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-09)
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Copying large files from SharePoint Online
I recently worked on a project where we needed to copy some large files from a specified library in SharePoint Online. In that library, there were several layers of...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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Daily Coping 20 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-20
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SQL Managed Instances – Failing Over
This is our current setup shown below. There is not much to failing over with Managed Instances, from experience it is similar to that of Azure SQL Database. Let’s...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and more)
Yesterday, I had about 30 existing queries (and some multi-query processes) that I needed to turn into individual stored procedures. […]
The post SQL Server meta-development (with regular expressions and...
2021-12-17 (first published: 2021-10-13)
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Daily Coping 16 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-16
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Open Business Continuity Questions & Answers – today at 1p Central
Our holiday gift to the Microsoft Data Platform Continuity Virtual Group is to have a massive panel of industry-leading experts answer YOUR questions with no strings attached! Bring your...
2021-12-16
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Daily Coping 15 Dec 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-12-15
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Blogs
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
Forums
SPAM Issues May 2026
We suffered a SPAM attack from May 1-6, which unfortunately corresponded with time off...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
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 TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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