T-SQL Tuesday #116–Always Linux
This month is an interesting invitation from Tracy Boggiano. It’s on Linux, which I like. I hadn’t thought about this in terms of T-SQL Tuesday, but I think it...
2019-07-29 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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The Voice of the DBA
Learning More about Kubernetes (K8s)
I know a bit about this, but I’m always looking for more. I had the chance to see Brendon Burns recently and I was impressed. That is one seriously...
2019-07-25 (first published: 2019-07-08)
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Taxing Travels
It was a long weekend of travel for me not too long ago, starting at 4:30am on Friday and ending at 7:30pm Sunday night. This was for SQL Saturday...
2019-07-05
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Come See the Future of Database DevOps at SQL Sat Austin
I’ll be coming to SQL Saturday #890 – Austin in just over a week. Austin is a great technology town, and this should be one of the larger SQL...
2019-07-03
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Getting Started with Spawn
I’m excited that the Redgate Foundry is working on some cool projects. The Future of DevOps is one and part of that work is with Spawn. I’ve played with...
2019-07-16 (first published: 2019-07-01)
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Honored to be a Microsoft MVP
Today is the renewal date for Microsoft MVPs. I received an email a short while ago informing me that I was being awarded again for the July 2019 –...
2019-07-01
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Basic User Functions in R
As I’ve been learning more about the data platform, I’ve been exposed to some R language code. This makes sense, as more comprehensive data analysis needs something other than...
2019-07-12 (first published: 2019-06-26)
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Watch the State of SQL Server Monitoring tomorrow
Tomorrow Redgate is running a webinar on the State of SQL Server Monitoring with Grant, Chris Yates, Annette Allen, and Tony Maddonna. You can register now and attend on...
2019-06-24
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SQLServerCentral–Fixing the Time Zone
One of the bugs features of the bbPress forum software is that all posts were shown in a time zone, which for us was a default of UTC. Not...
2019-06-22
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Just a Week to SQL Sat Pensacola
One of my favorite events, in a wonderful place to spend the weekend. I’ve been to Pensacola a few times (3?), including a couple times with my daughter. It’s...
2019-06-20
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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...
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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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