Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 3
As we continue in this series, see how auditing tables are used to track all changes that are made to the main data tables.
Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP.
Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
Living Moore's Law
eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.
Robyn Page's SQL Server String Manipulation Workbench
String searching and manipulation in SQL Server can be error-prone and tedious...unless you're armed with the techniques described in Robyn's string manipulation workbench, here newly revised with extra material from collaborator Phil Factor
Detective Stories - Changing the Case
How to change your "UPPER" or "lower" case strings to a mixed case
Software Assurance Cuts Back
Software Assurance from Microsoft is losing a benefit and Steve Jones comments.
TSQL Challenge 41 - Extract email addresses from text data
This challenge involves extracting email addresses from a table that contains text data downloaded from various websites.
When Times are Tough, Do You Rise to the Occasion?
Life isn't fair, and things don't always go your way. In fact, most people hit a tough patch sooner or later. When that happens to you, how do you respond?
Create a Performance Baseline Repository
This article demostrates how to create a Baseline repository that holds summarized data of all SQL Executions executed on an instance of SQL Server.
Blogs
Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
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...
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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