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Dipping into the Cookie Jar

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #112 prompt by Shane O'Neill.  T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database and...

2019-03-12

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Searching Complex JSON Data

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Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
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2019-02-26

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Searching Complex JSON Data

Watch this week's video on YouTube
Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
It's...

2019-02-26

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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs

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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT)...

2019-03-05 (first published: )

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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs

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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT) and DISTINCT interchangeably to get an idea of the...

2019-02-19

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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs

Watch this week's video on YouTube
One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT) and DISTINCT interchangeably to get an idea of the...

2019-02-19

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Secure Communications

As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?

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