New Cloud Licensing Limits
New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
2022-09-03
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Cloud Computing
2022-07-29
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The Azure Carrot
There is a promotion for SQL Server 2012 customers that might be considering the cloud and worried about support.
2022-07-27
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The Useful Cloud Tags
Tagging is important to keep track of resources in the cloud. Today Steve asks how you approach this topic.
2022-07-01
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2022-06-27
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Constant Azure Improvement
This week I noticed a number of changes in the Azure platform from their change feed. Actually, every week has a crazy number of changes across the entire platform, but this week a number of these were related to data and databases. That isn't always the case, but I saw some interesting items. We have […]
2022-04-16
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Cloud Computing Basics - Achieving High Availability
Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.
2022-03-28
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Monitoring Azure SQL Databases
There are many reasons you should monitor your databases, including avoiding performance problems or running out of disk space. Ideally, you want a scalable monitoring solution where you can monitor all your SQL databases in one single place. This article will describe two options that are available: Azure SQL Analytics and Azure SQL Insights. Both […]
2022-03-18
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The Cloud as a Foundation
The innovations and possibilities of cloud computing are exciting to Steve.
2022-02-09
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2022-01-24
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STRING_AGG's behavior
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Question of the Day
STRING_AGG's behavior
Executing the following script (Sql Server 2022), you get the table t0 with 10 rows:
CREATE TABLE t0
( id INT PRIMARY KEY
, field1 VARCHAR(1000)
, field2 VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT INTO t0
SELECT
gs.value
, REPLICATE ('X', 1000)
, REPLICATE ('Y', 1000)
FROM generate_series(1, 10, 1) gs;
GOWhat happens if you execute the following statements?
select STRING_AGG(field1, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;
select STRING_AGG(field2, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;