Sabbatical
Steve Jones is taking a sabbatical this year and has a few thoughts on what this means for his career.
2014-01-09
525 reads
Editorials
The Holiday Challenge
The holiday time period isn't always a fun time for IT pros who can get stuck working more than usual. Steve Jones talks about some of the experiences he's had.
2014-01-08
137 reads
Budget for Training
Work on your professional development plan in 2014. Steve Jones has a little advice for you.
2014-01-06
162 reads
Breaking Down Barriers
Steve Jones requests today that DBAs learn to work with developers and make us all more efficient. He asks for your ideas about how we might go about doing this.
2014-01-03
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2014-01-02
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2014-01-01
99 reads
2013 in Review
Steve Jones looks back at 2013, starting with his predictions on Jan 1 and looking at how data and SQL Server impacted our community.
2013-12-31
110 reads
Mining for Quitters
Google is trying to figure out who might quit the company, using their own custom application. Steve Jones thinks this is a great idea and wishes more companies would do it.
2013-12-30 (first published: 2009-06-10)
545 reads
Memories of 2013
It's the last Friday of 2013 and Steve Jones asks you to look back at the year. What stands out in your mind that relates to SQL Server.
2013-12-27
114 reads
It's not the platform
Steve Jones doesn't think that it matters which platform you choose. It's more about the people you have.
2013-12-26
150 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Creating JSON III
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Testing is Becoming More Important
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers