Active August #1
I like to blog about technical topics and community, not personal stuff. However, this is a community post. A number...
2009-08-01
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Blog Posts
Active August posts
I've started a blog to write down and track my personal goals:
The Goal Keeping DBA
Since Active August is part of reaching my goal...
2009-08-01
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Revive your User Group, part IV
Over the past three posts in this series entitled “Revive your User Group”, I’ve shared some of best practices that...
2009-08-01
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Article re-featured on SQLServerCentral
The second article I had published on SQLServerCentral, ANSI PADDING, Trailing Whitespace, and Variable Length Character Columns, was re-featured in...
2009-07-31
1,414 reads
Heading to N'Awlins
I'm leaving today for SQLSaturday #17, actually in Baton Rouge. I'll be at the speaker party tonight and hope to...
2009-07-31
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No really. When did this statement start?
I thought I had an interesting answer to the question. Unfortunately Adam Machanic, who has been working in this specific...
2009-07-31
1,322 reads
PASS & SQL Bloggers
PASS is trying to find better ways to reach out to SQL Bloggers. They’re going to experiment with taking advantage...
2009-07-31
1,318 reads
Things You Need To Know If You Use DFS Replication
In addition to being a SQL DBA I'm also a network administrator, or at least I pretend to be. This...
2009-07-31
2,860 reads
24 Hours of PASS - Building a Better Blog
I got asked to do an hour during the 24 hours of PASS that is happening on Sept 2. It's...
2009-07-30
1,376 reads
Book Review: The Connect Effect: Building Strong Personal, Professional, and Virtual Networks
I read The Connect Effect: Building Strong Personal, Professional, and Virtual Networks by Michael Dulworth ($16 @ Amazon) months ago, forgot...
2009-07-30
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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...
Forums
Hiring: Financial SQL Systems Administrator
Fisher Phillips is looking for a Financial Systems Administrator to help support and improve our financial...
Job Opening for ERP Systems Administrator - Hybrid
Employee owned company, been around for over 50 years. Hybrid opportunity, looking folks in Pacific...
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