Grinding Away: Mary Spender
A few years ago I stumbled on this video and loved it. That led me to Mary’s page and this cover of John Mayer’s Stop This Train: Since then...
2025-01-13
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The Voice of the DBA
Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments
One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...
2025-01-17 (first published: 2025-01-10)
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A New Word: Querinous
querinous – adj. longing for a sense of certainty in a relationship; wishing there were some way to know ahead of time whether this is the person you’re going...
2025-01-10
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Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows and tooling. A lot of people have loved SQL Compare or SQL Source Control for...
2025-01-15 (first published: 2025-01-08)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Lots of Postgres Options
Redgate Monitor is growing to include more than just Microsoft SQL Server monitoring. We added PostgreSQL support in 2023 and that continues to grow. This post looks at a...
2025-01-06
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Advice I Like: Experience and Aptitude
Experience is overrated. Most breakthrough accomplishments were done by people doing them for the first time. Therefore when hiring hire for aptitude and attitude and then train for skills....
2025-01-03
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Capturing Ideas for Blogs
As we close out the year, I decided to drop this post here and maybe inspire a few of you to write in 2025. This post looks at some...
2025-01-10 (first published: 2024-12-30)
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A New Word: Lilo
lilo– n. a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week – which is al...
2024-12-27
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Monday Monitor Tips: CIS Compliant
A new feature added to Redgate Monitor Enterprise automatically. CIS compliance is something many enterprises think about as their auditors use this as a benchmark. If you’ve never looked...
2025-01-06 (first published: 2024-12-23)
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My 2024 in Data: Music
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...
2024-12-20
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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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