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2009-09-23
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2009-09-23
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PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Querying Your Servers with PowerShell
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2009-09-22
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2009-09-22
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SQL Server Job Trends on Graphs
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2009-09-21
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Getting Into the Biz, Part 3
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2009-09-21
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PASS Update #14
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2009-09-18
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What happened to that email?
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Created script to send mails using sp_send_dbmail- working like a charm.
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2009-09-17
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Recursion with SQL Server 2008 within the Financial World
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2009-09-17
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Star Join Optimization in SQL Server 2008
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2009-09-16
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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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