SQL Server - MVP Deep Dives
I got my copy of MVP deep dives earlier this month and have been making good progress in reading some...
2010-03-02
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Blog Posts
Using Database Transactions across multiple SSIS Tasks
If you experiment at all with transactions that are built into SSIS you will discover that they are highly flawed. ...
2010-03-02
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Using Excel 2007 in SSIS 2005
Many companies are not in a rush to upgrade their SQL Servers because of the enormous cost to upgrade. This...
2010-03-02
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Volunteering Commitments
When you volunteer, you greatly enrich your life. I saw a post recently from Jason Brimhall talking about the volunteering...
2010-03-02
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Winner of the February SQL Aloha Contest
In February, I started a monthly contest at www.bradmcgehee.com to help spur some sharing of best practices among DBAs. The...
2010-03-02
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How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-01
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March Question: What is the biggest mistake/problem you have ever found on a SQL Server instance, and how did you fix it?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-03-01
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PowerShell for Batch Operations
I’m right in the middle of moving one of our databases from Oracle to SQL Server (and I just love...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 1
In this two part blog post we will demonstrate how to query an Oracle database from Powershell. Before we can...
2010-03-01
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Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 2
In part one we installed and configured the Oracle client software, in this post we will query an Oracle database...
2010-03-01
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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