Daily Coping 29 Jul 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-07-29
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Blog Posts
Server vs Instance. A rant.
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. ... Continue reading
2021-07-29
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SQL Server and AKS
Following on from my last post after creating AKS, I now want to work with SQL server. First step, load up Azure cloud shell. Run the following commands Here...
2021-07-29
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SQL Server on Linux Storage Secrets on Microsoft Channel 9
I’m thrilled to have recently released a video with Microsoft’s Data Exposed on Channel 9 where I discuss setting up Linux storage appropriate for on-demand disk expansion for your...
2021-07-29
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Thoughts on Unique Resource Names in Azure
Each resource type in Azure has a naming scope within which the resource name must be unique. For PaaS resources such as Azure SQL Server (server for Azure SQL...
2021-07-29
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Accessibility in your PowerPoint slide deck
This post is part of the series I kicked off here. You can read my post about captions here. Let’s talk about slides! Many of us are familiar with...
2021-07-28
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Building a Basic Desktop Flow with Power Automate Desktop
In this video Devin covers the the beginning design of a Power Automate Desktop Flow that will be used over the course of the next
2021-07-28 (first published: 2021-07-15)
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Daily Coping 28 Jul 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-07-28
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Nonclustered index leaf records always contain a null bitmap – since SQL 2012
While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
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Nonclustered index leaf records always contain a null bitmap – since SQL 2012
While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
Understanding Fabric MCP
By James Serra
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more...
AWS RDS Aurora - our first approach
When starting with AWS RDS Aurora for managing relational databases in the cloud, many...
Forums
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
SQL Password enforcing
Hi to all We have situation at a client where someone is illegally changing...
How do I explain that SQL Server should not be used as a code repository?
This week my BI Developer colleague proudly showed me a new Power BI report...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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