Getting Fired from an Unpaid Job.
Phil Factor initially brooded about being fired from a job he was just doing unpaid to help out. Then he suddenly realized that they were probably right.
2010-09-13
347 reads
Editorials
Instrumentation
This Friday Steve Jones is looking for the instrumentation or monitoring that you build into your applications.
2010-09-10
181 reads
Enjoy Your Job
A reminder today that there are people that enjoy their jobs. Steve Jones reminds us that we should take jobs based on that criteria.
2010-09-09
255 reads
Talking To You Makes Me Smarter
There's a lot of value in the interactions that professionals have with each other. A guest editorial from Andy Warren talks about the benefits of meeting new people.
2010-09-07
138 reads
Labor Day 2010
It's Labor Day in the US, and a day off for Steve, so enjoy this set of bloopers from his podcast.
2010-09-06
62 reads
Please don’t Tweet this, but…
Brad worries that with the advent and growth of social media, has come an increasing concern that today's private conversation may turn into tomorrow's world-wide Tweet.
2010-09-06
172 reads
2010-09-03
98 reads
Check Twice, Update Once
An update to the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer tool intrigues Steve Jones as it seems to have been enhanced to better help DBAs manage SQL Server.
2010-09-02
150 reads
Where Are the Programmers?
Today Steve Jones has a little fun with titles in technology, and what we might start to call ourselves instead of DBAs.
2010-09-01
249 reads
I Love the SQL Community
Steve Jones talks about the SQL Community and why it's so great. Hint: it's the people.
2010-08-30
174 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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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