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The Summit 2009 - Day 1
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T-SQL Best Practices – Don’t Use Scalar Value Functions in Column List or WHERE Clauses
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Updating a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School
Of all of the reader email I get, just these two things alone reminded me that of course I don't know everything, and many of you are working at a widening level of experience. To that end, this article is an old school article that shows new-to-WinForms programmers how to read data from controls and contrive SQL that updates a database.
It's Time for Encryption
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Come and Get it! Making Business Intelligence More Consumable
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SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Performance Best Practices
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Automate the Publishing of Data Changes into DML Scripts
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
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 TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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