Using curl to Automate Multipage Logins
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I like solving the daily New York Times crossword on paper. However, logging in to download the PDF every day and printing it is...
2022-03-03
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Bert Wagner
Recursively Querying Row Groups
Recursively Querying Related Rows Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve....
2020-09-02 (first published: 2020-08-25)
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
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Recursively Querying Related Rows
Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you...
2020-08-25
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Recursively Querying Row Groups
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Recursive queries are fun to plan and write. They can be frustrating too depending on the complexity of the problem you are trying to...
2020-08-25
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values...
2020-08-10 (first published: 2020-07-29)
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
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Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Should I Transform My Data In My SQL Query?
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Imagine you need to join two tables of data and filter the results. Perhaps you also need to convert some of the values for...
2020-07-29
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Moving 1/3 of a heap
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. A Giant Heap Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don’t ask me why this...
2020-08-03 (first published: 2020-07-22)
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Moving 1/3 of a heap
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A Giant Heap
Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don't ask me why this 3.5 billion...
2020-07-22
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Moving 1/3 of a heap
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A Giant Heap
Recently I had to filter out 1.2 billion records from a 3.5 billion row heap. Don't ask me why this 3.5 billion...
2020-07-22
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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
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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