2020 Advent of Code–Day 4
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. As one of my goals, I’m working through challenges. This post looks at day 4. I’m going to do this...
2021-04-28
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Blog Posts
Ambling through undocumented DBCC commands may result in boredom
There comes a time when we heed a certain call. The call is to avoid dangerous undocumented DBCC commands in SQL Server, especially those that bypass built-in protections. I’m...
2021-04-28
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Daily Coping 28 Apr 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...
2021-04-28
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My Deadlock Resolution Progress Report
As I wrote last month, I went through a period of feeling personally and professionally deadlocked, and flailed about for some time before I found the answer of making...
2021-04-28 (first published: 2020-02-21)
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Daily Coping 27 Apr 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...
2021-04-27
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Geek Sync: Meeting Security Benchmarks and Compliance with Microsoft SQL Server
Tomorrow, April 28, 2021, 12 PM EDT, I will be talking about meeting security benchmarks and compliance requirements with Microsoft SQL Server. Here is the registration link: Geek Sync...
2021-04-27
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Machine Learning – Introduction
Machine Learning : it is a system where system will learn how the pattern is going and accordingly we can predict the future information. There are two types in...
2021-04-27 (first published: 2020-04-26)
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Modern Data Warehouse explained
I created a short YouTube video (20 minutes) that is a whiteboarding session that describes the five stages (ingest, store, transform, model, visualize) that make up a modern data...
2021-04-27
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Using Pester to Improve Operational Tasks
Taking the Time To Test
Requirements in a constant state of change set you up for failure.
Failure to work through requirements before starting can also increase the risk of failure.
Planning...
2021-04-27 (first published: 2020-04-20)
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Checking for SQL Server Updates with dbatools
It turns out I was doing this all wrong for months. For the longest time, I’ve been checking my SQL Server instances to see what needs patching with Test-DbaBuild...
2021-04-26 (first published: 2020-04-28)
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Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Creating a JSON Document I
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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