PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II
The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation...
2016-10-28
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The Smiling DBA
PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part 1
Today’s keynote was by David Dewitt. He did an excellent job explaining the architecture behind various Cloud Data Warehouse offerings....
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016-Wednesday
As all Summits, the first Regular Session day in Seattle started with the Keynote. Well, really it starts with a...
2016-10-27
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PASS Summit 2016–Tuesday
For the first day at the Summit this year, I spent half my time in a Pre-Conference session with Idera...
2016-10-25
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VOTE!!! PASS Board of Director Elections
It is voting season again, and there is a great group of individuals running for the Board of Directors of...
2016-10-06
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Live! 360–Speaking at SQL Server Live Orlando 2016
If you are looking for a great conference to attend, please look at Live! 360. This event combines 6 different...
2016-09-10
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Using a Lookup Component in SSIS for Surrogate Keys in a Fact table
There are many suggestions for loading a data warehouse using SQL Server integration Services (SSIS). Once you get started, you...
2016-07-26 (first published: 2016-07-21)
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PASS Summit 2016 – Connect, Share, Learn
Please join me and about 4000+ other technology professionals for the annual PASS Summit in Seattle, WA October 24th – 28th....
2016-06-24
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Why use a Date Dimension Table in a Data Warehouse
In the Data Mart, or the Data Warehouse world, there is a date dimension table in all schemas if you...
2016-06-06 (first published: 2016-05-29)
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SQLSaturday Atlanta #521 May 19th & 20th 2016
SQLSaturday events are a pleasure to be a part of whether it involves speaking or volunteering. Volunteering definitely takes more...
2016-04-23
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Blogs
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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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