Speaking at the NYC Lunch and Learn DevOps Devour Hour
This Friday is the NYC DevOps Devour hour, which is actually 3 hours. Plus a happy hour. I’ll be there with Kendra Little and Erik Darling talking about DevOps...
2025-05-20
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Blog Posts
Getting Started with Vector Search in SQL Server 2025 Using Ollama
Ollama SQL FastStart streamlines the deployment of SQL Server 2025 with integrated AI capabilities through a comprehensive Docker-based solution. This project delivers a production-ready environment combining SQL Server 2025,...
2025-05-19
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Monday Monitor Tips: Beyond SQL Server
Redgate Monitor works with more than SQL Server. Some big changes were announced recently, and I’ll cover the highlights here. This post looks at Redgate Monitor and the additional...
2025-05-19
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SQL Server Engineering in Austin
I was lucky enough to attend SQL Saturday Austin 2025 a little over a week ago in conjunction with some work at the Redgate office. The opening keynote at...
2025-05-19 (first published: 2025-05-12)
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Using Cron in Postgres Flex
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database as an extension. It allows you to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly from your database, similar...
2025-05-19 (first published: 2025-04-24)
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A Conversation That Refused to End: What We Learned from Our First Event in Zurich
On May 8, 2025, we hosted our first official event in Switzerland at Prime Tower, Zurich. The gathering marked an important step in our journey to support organizations as...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-05-15)
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Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I explained how you can call a Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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The Book of Redgate: Customer Quotes
Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes sense to show off those places where you’ve done well in hopes of influencing others...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-25)
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The Book of Redgate: Do Your Best Work
One of our mission statements in the Book of Redgate says: attempt to do the best work of your life. I’d like to think that at most points in...
2025-05-16
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A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta
Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so do that if you can make it. Here’s the rough outline Vision Session – w/...
2025-05-14
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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...
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Hiring: Financial SQL Systems Administrator
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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