Safety in Numbers
One of the core things a DBA must do is ensure backup and recovery of data. This Friday Steve Jones asks about your tolerance for safety and backup data in a Friday poll.
Tips for New DBAs
New and old DBAs alike can benefit from going back to the roots of the profession. This series of articles highlight the skills needed to move to the next level of Database Administration.
Azure Tutorial - Building a'Hello Word' app in Visual Studio
This article demonstrates how to build a simple Azure app using Visual Studio
SSIS Alpha Splits using the CODEPOINT() Function
A relatively common requirement in ETL processing is to break records into disparate outputs based on an alphabetical split on...
Covering Index using Included Columns
This article from Josef Richberg details the benefits of included columns for use in creating a covering index to improve performance.
Configure Windows Firewall to Work with SQL Server
Windows Firewall is an OS level software firewall. It can be a crucial part of OS level security if you are not using other firewall hardware or software. Since I do not have another firewall I have a need to enable Windows Firewall for my SQL Server database server. In this article I go through the process of configuring Windows Firewall for different scenarios along with the associated considerations.
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
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The Best Laptop
Steve Jones recently went on a search for a new laptop, looking for the "best" one for him. But what it the best? And is it worth pursuing?
Time Bomb Coding
Do your system contain a time bomb in the code? David Poole looks at some potential situations where you might be experiencing performance issues and delves into why.
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
Forums
Breaking SQL Server for disaster recovery practice
Hey all. I understand if this gets taken down due to the subject matter...
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document I
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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