Finding the Last Last Name in SQL: #SQLNewBlogger
I wrote a piece on the new SUBSTRING in SQL Server 2025 and got asked a question. How do we get the last last name, such as only getting...
2025-11-19
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The Voice of the DBA
SQL Server 2025 GAs Today
If you aren’t watching the Ignite keynotes today, then you might have missed the announcement that SQL Server 2025 officially releases today. The main SQL Server page gives you...
2025-11-18
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The Roundup for T-SQL Tuesday #192
Last week I asked you to write about SQL Server 2025 and what things you might be looking forward to in the new version. First, as usual, is Rob...
2025-11-18
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Advice I Like: Failure
If it fails where you thought it would fail that is not a failure. – from Excellent Advice for Living This is a great quote, especially for those of...
2025-11-28 (first published: 2025-11-14)
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SQL Server 2025 RegEx and AI
One of the language changes in SQL Server 2025 that I’ve seen a lot of people mention is the addition of RegEx functions to T-SQL. I decided to take...
2025-11-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: SQL Server 2025 Backup Changes
I hosted this month, but I decided to put my own entry in as well. There are more things in this release than I expected, probably because of the...
2025-11-11
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Monday Monitor Tips: ServiceNow Integration
Earlier this year I visited a customer that was using the Redgate Monitor webhook to integrate with ServiceNow. However, they were also trying to integrate in a richer way...
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-11-10)
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T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m hosting. I was traveling a lot in October and didn’t sort out hosting for this...
2025-11-07
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The Book of Redgate: What Our Customers Say
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate Software. A lot of these words are things that we aim to express to each...
2025-11-07
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Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs and DBA tasks. This post shows how GenAI tech can be helpful to DBAs in...
2025-11-24 (first published: 2025-11-05)
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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
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
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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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