How to resolve ‘Login failed for user’ and sa password lost (Error 18456)
This blog post explains how to get into SQL Server if you have lost your sa password or you have...
2019-03-11 (first published: 2019-02-23)
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Blog Posts
Last Week Reading (2019-03-10)
Databricks-Connect – FINALLY! Do write your code in VS Code and run it remotely on Azure Databricks cluster. Automatically validate E-mail...
2019-03-11
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Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing indexes suggestions with specific queries, but the other place...
2019-03-11
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My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We...
2019-03-11
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My latest presentations
I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We all know technology changes so quickly so there is...
2019-03-11
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One week blogging hiatus
I’m taking a brief break from daily blogging, even though it has been a ton of fun.
No excuses
I hope...
2019-03-11
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Optimize for ad hoc VS sp_executesql?
Happy Friday! We made it. Here’s something I came across while testing optimize for ad hoc for this week’s blog...
2019-03-11 (first published: 2019-02-22)
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Scalar UDF Inlining in SQL Server 2019 – Simpler functions
Scalar UDF Inlining, introduced in SQL Server 2019, promises to improve the performance of Scalar UDFs. Let's look into the performance gains this offers.
The post Scalar UDF Inlining in...
2019-03-11
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Scalar UDF Inlining in SQL Server 2019 – Simpler functions
Scalar UDF Inlining, introduced in SQL Server 2019, promises to improve the performance of Scalar UDFs. Let's look into the performance gains this offers.
The post Scalar UDF Inlining in...
2019-03-11
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Weekly reading #6
Coding Family is late this week with the blog post! It is due to heavy storms and wind! It started...
2019-03-11
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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