Opportunities in (I.T.) Chaos
I just finished reading “The next wave of technologies” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a...
2010-04-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring – Abi Chapagai
Introduction
In any distributed environment, database synchronization between two different locations or different servers’ is very essential for mission critical applications....
2010-04-18
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Three Speaking Events in Six Days
AlantaMDF SQL Server Users Group. Photo courtesy of www.sqlvariant.com.
I have just finished up a three event speaking tour that, which...
2010-04-18
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A DMV a Day – Day 17
The DMV for Day 17 is sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns counts of different types of index operations...
2010-04-17
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Latest Simple-Talk.com Article Published on Deployment Management - to be Front Page Starting Monday
After several months of reflection/rewrites with colleagues (because orignally I forgot the Rollback plan - oops), and reworking the bilingual templates,...
2010-04-17
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A DMV a Day – Day 16
We have two DMVs for Day 16. The first one is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row...
2010-04-16
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Book Review – SQL Server Integration Services: Problem – Design – Solution
I usually don't do book reviews (at least publicly, anyway), but when I find a piece of work that I...
2010-04-16
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Confio Ignite: Part II
I’m continuing to evaluate Confio’s Ignite database monitoring tool. I’ve had it collecting data on a couple of production servers...
2010-04-16
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My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception
First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of...
2010-04-16
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Powershell SMO Problem
We’ve been running the Enterprise Policy Management tools available from Codeplex for a few months now (Thanks to Buck Woody’s...
2010-04-16
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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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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
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