A Smooth Laptop Setup
A little over a week ago, I got a new laptop. This was late on a Sunday afternoon, and I went home to spend time with me wife. After...
2019-12-16
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The Voice of the DBA
Prompt in ADS
Ever since VS Code and Azure Data Studio came out, people have been asking for SQL Prompt to port over. I’ve been right there with you, though unsure of...
2020-01-02 (first published: 2019-12-13)
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T-SQL Tuesday Gifts (#121)
It’s that time of month. I missed last month while traveling, but I wanted to get back in the party. This month, Mala has invited us to talk about...
2019-12-10
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Upgrading Windows 10 Home to Pro
I use Hyper-V and a few other things that require Windows 10 Pro. When I got my new laptop, it had Windows 10 home on it. Not a big...
2019-12-09
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HP is the 2019 Laptop Winner
This is for me, not necessarily for you, but I decided to go with the HP Spectre again. I saw an email from Best Buy over the Thanksgiving weekend,...
2019-12-06
50 reads
Resetting an Azure SQL Database Admin Password
This is likely something that most people know, but it was a bit confusing for me. This post is really here to remind me and help cement this in...
2019-12-18 (first published: 2019-12-05)
2,973 reads
A Quick Look at Travel
I was experimenting with visualizations the other day, and started playing with SandDance, a tool from Microsoft that you can use in Power BI or Azure Data Studio. I’ll...
2019-12-24 (first published: 2019-12-02)
291 reads
Take the 2020 State of Database DevOps survey
It’s still 2019, but we’re looking forward to 2020 and wonder how your world has changed since our survey last year. There are a number of questions and this...
2019-12-13 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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How Serverless is Working in Azure SQL Database
When Azure SQL Database introduced the serverless option, I decided to try it. I moved one of my databases to the tier, though I had to move to a...
2019-12-10 (first published: 2019-11-27)
1,051 reads
Cleaning up the [NOT] NULL for Columns with SQL Prompt 10
SQL Prompt 10 is out and there are a few interesting things that have changed in the product. One of these is the Quick Fixes, inspired by some other...
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Forums
Breaking SQL Server for disaster recovery practice
Hey all. I understand if this gets taken down due to the subject matter...
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Creating a JSON Document I
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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