A short Azure SQL Database Edge explainer
On Thursday 2 May 2019, Microsoft announced a new edition of SQL Server, targeting Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices. That means SQL Server can now run almost anywhere....
2019-05-03
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Blog Posts
Can a Certificate’s Private Key be Imported / Restored From a Binary Literal / Hex Bytes ?
(last updated: 2019-04-22 @ 13:00 EST / 2019-04-22 @ 17:00 UTC ) SQL Server 2012 introduced a significant improvement to CREATE CERTIFICATE: the ability to import a certificate —...
2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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Data Breaches: All Your Fault
One part of my job is to understand the compliance landscape. This means that I read a lot about the GDPR and related similar laws. I also have to...
2019-05-03 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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How Much Memory Does SSIS need?
One of the most common questions I am asked about ETL configuration is how much memory SSIS requires. When configuring a new instance of SQL Server running SSIS, or...
2019-05-02
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Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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Should I pluralize table names, is it Person, Persons, People or People?
Reading Time: 5 minutes (just do it!)
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How...
2019-05-02
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STEP-BY-STEP: HOW TO CONFIGURE A SQL SERVER 2008 R2 FAILOVER CLUSTER INSTANCE ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 IN AZURE
Intro On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. That means the end of regular security updates. However, if you move those SQL...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Using PowerShell in Containers
The vision for PowerShell Core is to be able to run PowerShell anywhere. In this article, I’m going to discuss how you can use Docker Containers to enable just...
2019-05-02
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Using the same Azure DevOps build steps for Terraform with different Pipelines with Task Groups to build an Azure Linux SQL VM
In my last post I showed how to build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a Terraform build of an Azure SQLDB. This will take the terraform code and build...
2019-05-02 (first published: 2019-04-22)
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ASF 021 video invitation (Star Wars Theme)
Since now, we will not keep our guests in secret. We want you to be prepared and wait if you’re interested in. First time 2 vs 2 in #AskSQLFamily...
2019-05-01 (first published: 2019-04-19)
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Blogs
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
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...
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SPAM Issues May 2026
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SQL Password enforcing
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SQL Password enforcing
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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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