SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Early Access Edition Now Available
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, a new book written by 53 SQL Server MVPs, is now available as an eBook,...
2009-10-12
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Blogs
My Journey - Part I
I've actually been meaning to write about my journey as a SQL Server professional, but kept putting it off. I...
2009-10-09
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Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
2009-10-07
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Eliminating Empty Output Files in SSIS
So you’ve got some packages that regularly extract data to one or more text files, but you know that from...
2009-10-05
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Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Managers
If you work in software development or IT long enough eventually you're going to find yourself in a situation where...
2009-10-02
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The old INNER JOIN syntax vs. the new INNER JOIN syntax
I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
2009-10-01
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems - The Basics of Spinning Disks
Your servers are only as fast as the slowest part, hard drives.
To feed other parts of the system we have...
2009-09-28
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Networking Sins
I ran across this article about networking sins a while back and have had it on my list to share....
2009-09-25
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More Free Training Resources
A recent blog by Jack Corbett (No Training Budget Still No Excuse, followed up by SSC’s Steve Jones here) hit...
2009-09-25
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Blobs and Filestreams
In the next week or so I’ll be upgrading the SQL 2005 server that has the SQLSaturday database and I’m...
2009-09-24
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Blogs
A Cloud Dependency Failure from Amazon
By Steve Jones
I went to sleep while reading a Kindle book on my phone. I know...
Deploying AI in logistics (the unfiltered version)
A conversation with Jan Laš, CIO at HOPI, about what deploying a data agent...
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Invitation: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
It's time for T-SQL Tuesday #198! This month's topic is change detection. The post T-SQL...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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