A New Word: Fitching
fitching – v. intr. compulsively turning away from works of art you find frustratingly, nauseatingly good – wanting to shut off the film and leave the theater, or devour...
2024-07-12
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The Voice of the DBA
Test Data Manager in Under 10 Minutes
Test Data Manager (TDM) is a suite of products from Redgate that make it easy to build dev and test databases in seconds. It’s a nice rewrite of a...
2025-03-06 (first published: 2024-07-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #176: One piece of advice for Past Steve
I almost missed this month, so this is also a good #SQLNewBlogger post. I thought about it for a few minutes as I ate breakfast at my desk and...
2024-07-26 (first published: 2024-07-09)
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Deleting Old Local Git Branches–#SQLNewBlogger
I had a lot of local branches for a repo (actually a few repos). I know these are old and not used anymore, so how do I delete them?...
2024-07-08
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Set a Runtime Variable in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
Note: I DO NOT recommend this. Any changes to a pipeline should be in code and through a PR. That being said, I know this information is out there...
2024-07-22 (first published: 2024-07-05)
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A New Word: Symptomania
symptomania – n. the fantasy that there’s some elaborate diagnosis out there that neatly captures the kind of person you are, tying together your many flaws and contradictions into...
2024-07-05
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Inside SQL Server Backup and Restore History Pruning with sp_delete_backuphistory
I had a customer that was looking to document a restore that had occurred on one of their systems and didn’t see it. They had concerns about SQL Server...
2024-07-03
628 reads
DBAs, Organizing Your SQL Scripts in Git
I wrote an article that was published on SQL Server Central on how to get your scripts into Git. This post adds a few more thoughts on how you...
2024-07-01
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Not Selected for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024
I got this in an email about a week ago from the PASS Data Community Summit. There’s more to it, but essentially I submitted 3 talks (2 on deployments,...
2024-07-19 (first published: 2024-06-28)
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A New Word: Addleworth
addleworth – adj. unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for...
2024-06-28
32 reads
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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