T-SQL Tuesday 153: The Conference Changed Everything For Me
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about an...
2022-08-10
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FLX SQL
T-SQL Tuesday 152: An ORM Will Not Save You From Yourself
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Deborah Melkin (blog | twitter) asks us for a database-related rant.
I...
2022-07-12
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Why You (usually) Want a Clustered Index
Note: I originally wrote this a few years ago but never posted it. It resurfaced when I migrated the blog so it’s being posted now.
After watching Kevin Kline’s (blog...
2022-06-13 (first published: 2022-05-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #150: Your First Technical Job
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Kenneth Fisher (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about our...
2022-05-11
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Mic Check
Is this thing on? If you’re reading this test post, it means DNS has updated properly and I’ve successfully migrated to Azure Static Web Sites. Welcome!
2022-05-10
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Blog Changes Coming
Over the next couple days (weeks?), a significant change is coming to my blog (and if you’re reading this text, it’s already happened). I will be leaving Wordpress behind...
2022-04-25
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My PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Speaking Experience
If you’d asked me 5 years ago if I would ever speak at Summit, I’d have said “no way, not possible.” I didn’t even think I was able to...
2021-11-19
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021 Presentation Resources
A collection of links and resources related to my PASS Data Community Summit 2021 presentation Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools including bonus content! Resources dbatools main site dbatools...
2021-11-10
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PASS Data Community Summit 2021
A collection of the resources mentioned in my PASS Data Community Summit session Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools, including bonus content!
2021-11-10
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Lesson Learned From Multi-Threading with dbatools
Over the summer, I spent some (a lot of) time working on updates to a script at work which runs multiple processes in parallel. Everything seemed to work OK...
2021-10-27
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
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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;
What are the results? See possible answers