Volunteers Needed For PASS SUMMIT
Last night I submitted my application to volunteer for the 2014 PASS Summit Program Committee.
Not know what PASS is? head...
2014-01-22
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SQL Server 365
2013 - The Year of Community Speaking
So, the end of 2013 is upon us and what a year it has been. The SQL Server 365 blog...
2013-12-31
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PASS Summit
It's that time of year again, the annual PASS Summit is under way in Charlotte, NC!
For those of you who...
2013-10-17
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Encryption Decryption Routine
In this post we will look at a complete end to end routine for encrypting, storing, decrypting data in SQL...
2013-09-17 (first published: 2013-09-11)
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Free Tools For The DBA
In this post we will look at 5 free tools that I use on a daily basis, I'll give a...
2013-09-05
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Bank Holiday Fun - DDL Trigger
Following on from my previous post on triggers, I had made a mental note to make sure I did a...
2013-08-30 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Trigger Status
Have you ever spent hours looking at an issue only to have your investigation hindered by a trigger? I know...
2013-08-20
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Windows Failover Cluster Monitor
Windows Failover Clusters are fantastic, they provide High Availability for mission critical SQL Server instances and make my life as...
2013-08-19 (first published: 2013-08-09)
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Disaster Recovery - Part 1 - Possibly Almost Everything But the Kit
Over the years I have been fortunate or unfortunate enough, depending on who you are to have experienced several disasters...
2013-07-26
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First Time Speaker
So this week was another first for me, I finally bit the bullet and gave a talk at the Leeds...
2013-07-25
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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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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
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;See possible answers