On Thursday January 19th at 12 noon Central, Audrey Hammonds will discuss renovating your data model while keeping you’re the production system humming
Due to a recent rebuild of the master database for a SQL Server instance, I now need to restore the msdb and model databases. In this tip we walk through the process that you need to follow to restore the model and msdb databases successfully.
As a DBA, we often setup monitoring to receive job failure notification, but when it comes to SSIS packages, we either do not capture the job failure (if the job runs through the command prompt) or we have no idea why it failed. In this article, I'd like to walk you through how to enable the logging functionality for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and how to capture detailed information for immediate troubleshooting without "re-run" the package.
A Multicast Transformation can be used to write the same data file to multiple network folders, but it can be tedious and time-consuming to set up as the number of destination files grows. Learn how you can use this transformation in this article by Stan Kulp.
Today Steve Jones talks about the need for a lab for each of us, and a few ways you can build one.
A SQL expression may look elegant on the page but it is only valuable if its performance is good. Do window functions run quicker than their conventional equivalent code? Fabiano Amorim gives a definitive answer.
Today's editorial was originally reprinted on Jun 17, 2007. It is being re-run as it is a holiday in the US. Today Steve Jones looks at Jonthan Schwartz, the former CEO of SUN who took over from the founder, Scott McNealy.
DBAs always tend to face many difficulties in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Brad McGehee encourages some debate on the best strategies to make this work, in the face of long working hours, and the desire to contribute fully to the SQL Server community.
How do you grant a SQL Server developer truncate table permission without giving them the ability to alter the table? Check out the examples and explanation in this tip.
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I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers