Advice I Like: Art
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken – from Excellent Advice for Living Interesting advice for living...
2025-12-12
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The Voice of the DBA
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded...
2026-01-09 (first published: 2025-12-10)
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A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of what our Customers Say about us. However, this is what our employees said about the...
2025-12-05
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PASS Keynote Shots
Rodney Kidd took some great shots of the keynote and published an album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127113040@N04/albums/72177720330695911 A few of my favorites: Here’s one of the 8 ball and keynote (and...
2025-12-04
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Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting, but creating all the objects is a pain. I decided to try creating a physical...
2025-12-01
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The PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap
It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m still recovering from the PASS Data Community Summit. There’s a nice wrap from the crew,...
2025-11-26
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A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore how it works. This is a short look at this tool and how it might...
2025-12-05 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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A New Word: Dead Reckoning
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would have expected, even if they were only an abstract presence in your life, like a...
2025-11-21
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Blogs
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
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Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
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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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