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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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