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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.
It's...

2019-02-26

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Blog Post

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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Parsing HTML in SQL Server

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Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...

2019-02-12

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Parsing HTML in SQL Server

Watch this week's video on YouTube
Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...

2019-02-12

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A Big PK

In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary  Key constraint?

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