31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Let’s start off this series with a...
January Question: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
Managing disk space is an important resposibility of the DBA, and there are many ways to perform this task. In...
Monitor SQL Server Agent Jobs with Policy Based Management
I need to monitor all the SQL Agents to find out if a job failed in the last 24 hours. Could this be done with policy based management? If so, can you show me how to create the policy?
Welcome to 2011
After the holidays, Steve Jones welcomes everyone in the SQLServerCentral community to the new year and talks about goals and your career.
Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittA few posts ago in the plan cache series I discussed the children for the...
Identity Property Range Checking in SQL Server
This article examines practical methods of managing and monitoring large tables which make use of the IDENTITY property.
Being Careful with Power
It's good to be careful with your power consumption, especially as the power cost of computing continues to grow. However with your SQL Server, you don't want to be too careful, as Steve Jones notes.
Clouds Are In our Future
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the future of cloud computing and SQL Server.
How to check SQL Server Authentication Mode using T-SQL and SSMS
Many times developers want to put logic into their code or SSIS/DTS package to check the SQL Server authentication mode. How can this be done programmatically?
SQL Server Workload Types and Hardware Selection
There are two primary relational workload types that SQL Server commonly has to deal with, the first being Online Transaction...
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
By SQLPals
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Restoring Azure Key Vault Keys...
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