SQL Server Job Trends on Graphs
A colleague pointed out a site that collects a lot of job posting data and exposes graphs - so I've taken...
2009-09-17
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Blog Posts
SSMS "Connect to Database Engine" Prompt Behavior When Dragging And Dropping Files
A minor annoyance of mine for a long time has been how SSMS will sometimes prompt you to connect to...
2009-09-17
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The Boss Is Always Right
Bet you’re ready to disagree, right? I’ve had this on my list to write about for a while. One trend...
2009-09-17
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Article of the Week – Kevin Kline “Social Media Scene”
This weeks article is written by Kevin Kline, which is titled “Getting Up-to-Speed on the SQL Server Social Medial Scene”. ...
2009-09-16
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Browse and Script
One of the cool features of the SQL Server PowerShell snapins is the the ability to browse SQL Server as...
2009-09-16
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DRP for SQL Server translation into French - traduction en français du plan de relève (à l'aide - help please)
There are about 45 paragraphs that I hope to progressively and quickly translate for the French version of the Disaster...
2009-09-16
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Featured Blogger: Simon Sabin
Simon is a prolific blogger, at rough look averaging 10-15 posts per month, and almost all of them are SQL,...
2009-09-16
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MVP Profile of the Week.....Jacob Sebastian
It’s been a busy month of September, and I’ve been getting feedback from the busy world of SQL Server MVP’s...
2009-09-16
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Nice Quote
Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
Since I got to so many,...
2009-09-16
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Skipping Items in a Foreach Loop
Recently, my friend Jack Corbett asked a question on Twitter:
In a nutshell, the SSIS foreach loop will enumerate a given...
2009-09-16
5,773 reads
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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setting an ssis param dynamicaly when the sql agent job runs
hi i was hoping for a more elegant way of setting a pkg level...
Query compile/runtime issue
I have a plan which in sys.query_store_plan shows: Last_compile_start_time of 2026-04-23 00:13:00.7670000 +00:00 Last_execution_time...
Hiring: Financial SQL Systems Administrator
Fisher Phillips is looking for a Financial Systems Administrator to help support and improve our financial...
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 n;See possible answers