What is the database property “Compatibility Level”
What is the database property Compatibility Level? I don’t get asked to write about specific subjects very often but in...
2015-07-08
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SQLStudies
Adding a new keyboard shortcut in SSMS.
I love keyboard shortcuts. I’d rather keep my hands on the keyboard than move back and forth to the mouse....
2015-07-13 (first published: 2015-07-06)
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Blocking and deadlocking on purpose
Blocking and deadlocking are not things you typically want to do deliberately. But sometimes you need to test error handling...
2015-07-07 (first published: 2015-07-01)
2,565 reads
Zero to Speaker pt 2
A few months ago I wrote a post about the fact that I had actually submitted a session to PASS...
2015-07-03 (first published: 2015-06-29)
1,708 reads
Which user function do I use?
Earlier this week I was scripting out a table with some legacy columns (InsertDate and InsertBy for example). If you...
2015-06-30 (first published: 2015-06-24)
2,075 reads
Copying a TDE database from one instance to another
I got my first real world experience with a TDE (transparent data encryption) database recently. For those who don’t know...
2015-06-22
913 reads
Pass TV
Recently Adam Machanic (b/t) was telling me about an interesting effect of the top operator. When I asked for an...
2015-06-17
661 reads
Rename a database
Renaming a database isn’t something you do frequently but it does have bit of a gotcha. First of all let’s...
2015-06-15
607 reads
Modifying the “New Query” template.
TLDR; Search for and modify the sqlfile.sql file.
During a recent T-SQL Tuesday Boris Hristov (b/t) taught me about SET NOEXEC...
2015-06-23 (first published: 2015-06-11)
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A walk-through of creating the Activity Tracking template using Extended Events.
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and that means T-SQL Tuesday time! T-SQL Tuesday is a blog party started...
2015-06-15 (first published: 2015-06-09)
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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...
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Creating JSON III
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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;
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