SQL Server 2016 has reduced the NoSQL JSON “advantage” over SQL Server
Microsoft has finally implement support for JSON data in SQL Server 2016 and in Azure SQL Database. In a previous...
2016-12-20
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SQL Development Wizard
Invoke-SqlCmd and error results
Don’t trust Invoke-SqlCmd and error resultsI love to call Invoke-sqlcmd from powershell but one must beware of the risk of...
2016-12-19
26,980 reads
Don’t trust Invoke-SqlCmd and error results
Don’t trust Invoke-SqlCmd and error results
I love to call Invoke-sqlcmd from powershell but one must beware of the risk of...
2016-12-13
40 reads
Terminate a SSIS package after specific time interval.
Terminate a SSIS package after specific time interval.
There are several ways you can execute scheduled SSIS package/job they are:
A) SQL...
2013-06-25
8,967 reads
Run DBCC CHECKDB on a regular basis
Problem One common task as DBA is to run DBCC CHECKDB on a regular basis to detect and correct potential corruption...
2013-04-18 (first published: 2013-04-10)
11,877 reads
SQL Server Policy Based Management Alerts
SQL Server Policy Based Management Alerts
Problem
Policy-Based Management is used to enforce standards on SQL Servers and it's great. But not...
2012-12-04
4,334 reads
Running a document database on Sql Server
Running a document database on Sql Server.
Since Microsoft is slow to come out with a product of their own to...
2012-09-26
14,741 reads
Unwanted dependency between different parts of the code
Small systems tend to grow with new functionality and new access points. When the system grows, the need for data...
2012-08-16
1,118 reads
JSON and the NoSQL “advantage” over SQL Server
First what is JSON?
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation.
JSON is syntax for storing and exchanging text information, similar to XML.
JSON is smaller...
2012-06-25 (first published: 2012-06-14)
18,264 reads
Don’t Pass Null
I’ve been rereading an excellent book called “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. This book has some practices that each...
2012-06-08
1,209 reads
Blogs
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I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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Can someone please explain what happens?
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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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