How to Consolidate & Virtualize SQL Server 2008
Many companies face the decisions to 1) consolidate their SQL Servers, due to sql sprawl; and 2) whether to virtualize their SQL...
2010-03-15
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Blog Posts
North Texas SQL Server User Group – March 2010
Join us this Thursday, March 18th for our monthly NTSSUG meeting. SQL Server MVP Sean McCown will be continuing his...
2010-03-15
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Review: Virtual CloneDrive
It’s pretty common to download software as an ISO file (a disk image) and it seems like a waste to...
2010-03-15
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SNESSUG March Meeting
Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our...
2010-03-15
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #29 in Birmingham, AL
On Saturday the 27th of March, I’m going to be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday #29 in Birmingham, Alabama.
1:30 PM:...
2010-03-15
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SQL 2008 Auditing Presentation in NJ by the MAK!
If you are a regular to the sql server community sites, forums and blogs, then you know about the awesome stuff brought...
2010-03-15
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SQL Server Utility in SQL Server 2008 R2
One of the new management related features in SQL Server 2008 R2 is SQL Server Utility. SQL Server Utility gives...
2010-03-15
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Thoughts on SQL Server Certification
This is probably part 1 of a series, but no guarantees.
Why Certify?
I've been working with SQL Server for 10 years...
2010-03-15
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Volunteering for PASS
I said I was going to do it last year, and I followed through. After submitting an application to volunteer,...
2010-03-15
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Finding Date Ranges for Calculating Statistics
Finding Date Ranges for Calculating StatisticsI received the following question from a fellow DBA:
I need your input to derive the...
2010-03-14
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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Testing is Becoming More Important
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers