70-457 Reviewer #08, Implementing Clustered Instance in SQL Server 2012
This part of the review is still a part of the topic Maintain Instances and Databases which accounts for 17%...
2013-08-01
628 reads
Coffee and SQL
Amazon Partners With Cloud vLab To Teach Developers How To Use AWS
Reblogged from TechCrunch: Nobody has ever accused Amazon Web Services of hiding its complexities. It seems even Amazon acknowledges that...
2013-07-31
1,374 reads
Using MSX and TSX to scale out your maintenance plans
For our front office alone, I manage about 15-20 SQL database servers. Add to that other database servers that I...
2013-07-30
1,341 reads
How secure is your IT career? Really?
I was reading some articles from my favorite influencers in LinkedIn and I came across this one. I was enlightened...
2013-07-30
1,227 reads
SQL Server Management Studio Rainbow Edition
Reblogged from The SQL Pro: Ever wanted to know the reason behind the Database color scheme in SQL Server Management...
2013-07-29
694 reads
What I’m sayin’ is…everything is fine.
Let’s say you are a member of the development team. Your team got a new project in the works, so...
2013-07-29
635 reads
Free Ebooks! Free Ebooks!
There’s a lot to smile on a cool Monday like this. One, it’s 27C outside here in Singapore, a lot...
2013-07-29
701 reads
Go ahead. Laugh.
I came across one of my twitter friends @DBAReactions tumblr site and gosh! I cannot stop laughing! Here is one...
2013-07-27
534 reads
70-457 Reviewer #07, Resolving Concurrency Problems in SQL Server 2012
This topic is part of the lessons covered in Optimization and Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 which is 14% of overall...
2013-07-25
1,847 reads
Understanding Contained Database in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 supports contained databases and partially contained databases, which provide a high degree of isolation from the database...
2013-07-24
1,243 reads
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers