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Testing Service Pack 3
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Using Data Viewers - SQL School Video
Integration Services is a great system for performing ETL operations between databases. In this video we show how you can use Data Viewers to determine if you are correctly transforming data.
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
Exploring SQL 2005’s Ranking Functions – NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER()
Part 20 of the "SqlCredit – Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" examines SQL 2005’s NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER() Ranking Functions.
Operations Manager: A Big Tinker Set
To illustrate the great possibilities of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, Thomas shows how to create a Custom Monitor for SQL Agent Jobs, and concludes that Operations Manager is nothing more than a big tinker set.
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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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