A second week at SQLskills – performance tuning
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Back in February, I was lucky enough to attend a week of training on SQL internals from the people at...
2011-08-14
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measure twice, cut once.
Select from a table with no rows returned.
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I recently ran into a nice feature that I had never encountered before.
Sometimes, when developing or administrating an unfamiliar table...
2011-07-04
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Meme Monday for June – there are no dumb questions
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Here’s my input into this months Meme Monday – there are no dumb questions.
It seems (at least to me), that – occasionally...
2011-06-06
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Free SQL Exam cram sessions from Microsoft.
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I’m a big fan of maintaining and updating your technical skills, but sometimes its difficult to measure your ability at...
2011-05-31
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A curious case of a missing configuration group.
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I recently received a brand new windows 7 virtual machine for my every day work use and one of the first things...
2011-05-12
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Catalog view or compatibility view?
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The recommended way to access SQL SERVER metadata is through the catalog views.
The challenge is to be able to distinguish...
2011-05-08
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Certifications – and a survey.
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There’s a lot of mixed opinions around about certifications.
Are they worth while, do they mean anything, do employers value them...
2011-05-05
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How do you create or update stored procedures.
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Running object creation scripts into other environments is a big part of most DBA’s work – especially when a new system...
2011-05-04
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
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Apparently “Meme Monday” was started by Thomas Larock (Blog | Twitter) , as a way for getting people writing. I haven’t been...
2011-05-02
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Checkpoints and the Lazy writer
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Both the lazy writer process and a checkpoint both push in-memory pages out to disk, however that’s where the similarity ends.
The reason...
2011-05-02
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Blogs
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
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Creating a JSON Document I
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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