The Best Minds
What do you want when you go to a conference? Great speakers or great information? Steve Jones talks a little about how we get both in the future.
Use Backup/Restore to Minimize Upgrade Downtimes
Learn how to minimize downtime while moving databases using Backup/Restore in SQL Server.
Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
Going Native
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
Implementing SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM functionality
Learn to enable the FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server 2008 and configure your database to support it.
Starting Conversations - Part 6
As I've related previously (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I've been working author and speaker Don Gabor on my networking skills. We recently did our final call of the six hours coaching planned, and thought I'd share some final thoughts.
The Basic Functionality of Report Designer
Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most prominent features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have discussed its reporting capabilities. This article illustrates another approach to generating reports, relying on the Report Server Project template, which offers a considerably wider range of flexibility than its wizard-driven counterpart does.
Planning Ahead - Single Node Clusters
People don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. Single node clustering provides organisations with a ready made scale-up or high availability platform from the beginning of the deployment.
Hub-And-Spoke: Building an EDW with SQL Server and Strategies of Implementation
This document describes common data warehouse implementation strategies and proposes an effective hub-and-spoke architecture using a massively parallel processing system with multiple instances of SQL Server databases.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #198–Change Detection
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, Meagan Longoria, who graciously agreed to help...
Redgate and Rome
By Steve Jones
I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
Quick Tip: Check Most DTU Expensive Queries in Azure SQL Database
Optimizing Azure SQL Database performance often begins with identifying the most resource-intensive queries. Understanding...
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Creating a JSON Document IV
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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