Catching Up on The #SQLPASS Virtual Chapters
(Didn't realize until I was posting that this was my 100th post...whew!)
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A few months ago we purchased a new "smart"...
2016-05-17
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Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
Upcoming SQL Saturdays - June 2016
I am speaking at two different SQL Saturdays in June!
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First up on June 4th is SQL Saturday #517 Philadelphia (#SQLSAT517)...
2016-05-12
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SQL 2016 - The Time Has Come!
Microsoft dropped it on us this morning:
Get ready, SQL Server 2016 coming on June 1st
https://media.makeameme.org/created/yes-finally.jpg
I read the article and was...
2016-05-02
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Where Is My Primary Replica Again?
We have many clients with multi-node Availability Groups - that is, AGs with more than two replicas. One of the problems...
2016-05-03 (first published: 2016-04-22)
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How Long Did That Job Run?
When you use the msdb tables to try to gather information on your SQL Server Agent jobs, inevitably you will...
2016-04-21 (first published: 2016-04-14)
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Don't Use Delimiters In Your Object Names!
It started with a failed backup status check:
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 1, Line 73
** Backups listed in this file...
2016-04-04
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Why I Love #SQLSaturday
PASS SQLSaturdays are free 1-day training events for SQL Server professionals that focus on local speakers, providing a variety of...
2016-03-28
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Pulling Security Info
A frequent request I receive is to pull a list of logins/users with certain accesses, role memberships, etc.
I had a...
2016-04-07 (first published: 2016-03-24)
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Update Your Scripts!
I had an incident today where a colleague was running a Wait Stats Report and the output looked like this:
As...
2016-03-15 (first published: 2016-03-09)
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Another Source of Knowledge
It started with a tweet from one the many members of the #sqlfamily who always has something meaningful to say,...
2016-03-07 (first published: 2016-03-01)
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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Testing is Becoming More Important
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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