Interacticely sorting columns in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
Business Intelligence Developers Studio (aka BIDS) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services makes creating engaging and dynamic reports nearly...
2009-09-23
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Skipping Items in a Foreach Loop
Recently, my friend Jack Corbett asked a question on Twitter:
In a nutshell, the SSIS foreach loop will enumerate a given...
2009-09-23
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PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell
In my last blog post, I discussed how to get PowerShell and SQLPS up and running on your machine(s). And...
2009-09-22
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Windows Internal Database
This past Friday I received a call from our systems team stating that they were running low on Disk Space...
2009-09-22
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SQL Server Job Trends on Graphs
A colleague pointed out a site that collects a lot of job posting data and exposes graphs - so I've taken...
2009-09-21
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Getting Into the Biz, Part 3
In a couple of previous posts (Part One and Part Two), I shared some thoughts about starting a career path...
2009-09-21
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PASS Update #14
I’ve been on the board just about 8-1/2 months, so I’m not doing too bad on updates, but think I’ll...
2009-09-18
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What happened to that email?
This question:
Created script to send mails using sp_send_dbmail- working like a charm.
Now searching for a way to get...
2009-09-17
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Recursion with SQL Server 2008 within the Financial World
As most of you, we in the financial world have often been faced with the challenge of extracting data from relational sources that within the business frame of reference are more hierarchical in nature. Recently, I did what most of us do from time to.
2009-09-17
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Star Join Optimization in SQL Server 2008
When working with a dimensionally modeled data warehouse it is common for a large number of your queries to follow...
2009-09-16
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Blogs
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
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196
By Steve Jones
This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on...
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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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