Expanding Northwind with Prompt+
I was trying to do a little testing of our subsetter and needed a larger database. So I decided to ask Prompt + to help me with a little...
2024-09-02 (first published: 2024-08-14)
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The Voice of the DBA
T-SQL Tuesday #177–Keeping track of database code
This month’s invitation is from Mala Mahadevan, who has hosted 5 times. This latest one is one that is near and dear to my heart as I use source...
2024-08-13
15 reads
Grouping by Object Type in SQL Compare
A customer recently was asking about grouping objects by type to see all the differences in two databases for one set of objects, like all stored procedures. This post...
2024-08-21 (first published: 2024-08-12)
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A New Word: Hiddled
hiddled – adj. feeling of loneliness of having to keep a secret to yourself. I don’t know I am often hiddled. I don’t tend to keep secrets by myself....
2024-08-09
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DevOps Days Minneapolis–Best Practices for Database Deployments
Thanks to everyone who attended, though with one stage I had a fairly captive audience. I enjoyed the event and look forward to coming back to the Twin Cities...
2024-08-08
18 reads
Simple Talks–Episode 3
The third episode of Simple Talks is out. This is the new Redgate podcast from myself, Grant, Ryan, and Louis. The main page is here, and it has links...
2024-08-07
78 reads
The Redgate Summit: New York
The final 2024 Redgate Summit in the US takes place in a few weeks, on Aug 21. Redgate Summit: The Database Landscape is coming to the Microsoft Office at...
2024-08-05
26 reads
Monday Monitor Tips- Enabling Index Tracking in Redgate Monitor
There is a new index feature in Redgate Monitor, but it’s disabled by default. This post shows how to enable things. This is part of a series of posts...
2024-08-19 (first published: 2024-08-05)
132 reads
A New Word: Bareleveling
bareleveling – v. trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’’ll end up calling...
2024-08-02
22 reads
Finding Where xp_cmdshell is Used
I saw a post recently where someone was concerned about where xp_cmdshell was in use inside their system. They felt it was a security risk, and decided to get...
2024-08-14 (first published: 2024-07-31)
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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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