SQL Saturday Precon - SSIS Design Patterns
SQL Saturday is hitting Dublin for the first time on March 24th.
Tips for Upgrading a Cluster to SQL 2008 - Part 2
This article describes my experience in upgrading a four node cluster with three active instances to SQL 2008
SQL Server Ranking Functions
SQL Server includes a subset of four ranking functions that can be used to rank the rows of your result set over a partition. This article presents those functions and examples of their use.
Disconnected database development: solving a problem that needn't exist
A disconnected model is only really needed in the absence of a properly-defined database interface. We, as developers, create a rod for our own backs by insisting on treating a database in a way we wouldn't treat an object, let alone an assembly or namespace.
Financial Rounding of Allocations
When rounded detail quantities are created by an allocation, often the total must foot back exactly to the allocated amount.
Tabs or Spaces
Today Steve Jones talks about one of the classic software developer debates. When formatting code, how should you do it?
TSQL Challenge 78 - Parse single field into multiple fields
The database field contains long string with data for Quantity and Parts. The challenge is to parse the data into separate (Quantity and Parts) fields for displaying in a report.
SQL Saturday #128 - Istanbul
The first SQL Saturday event in Turkey, on Mar 31, 2012 at the Microsoft office in Istanbul. Sign up and come for a free day of SQL Server training.
Index Statistics in SQL Server: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes Level 14
A look at the information that helps SQL Server make better decisions.
Waiting for SP1
This Friday Steve Jones wants to ask a poll about SQL Server 2012. Do you think it's ready for your production servers?
Blogs
A Fabric solution can be very cost effective
By ChrisJenkins
Are you currently using Microsoft Fabric or considering migrating to it? If so, there...
Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log
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Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log If you...
Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)
Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working...
Forums
SQL Server Showing Out of Space But Plenty of Drive Space
We have a SQL Server installed. We have a 500GB drive for the database....
Creating a JSON Document IV
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Restoring Azure Key Vault Keys and Validating SQL Server TDE Recovery: Level 7 of the Stairway to TDE
By VishnuGupthanSQLPowershellDBA
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document IV
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 YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers