Everyone uses a text editor. Whether for programming, editing configuration files, or reviewing logs. Here's a look at an inexpensive replacement for notepad that performs a number of functions that DBAs might be interested in having.
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As you might guess from the title, this is an extended stored procedure that you can use to interact with MSMQ. It's supposed to be extremely fast, able to handle 4-5k messages per second and have a very small memory footprint. (Press Release)
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Hopefully you've heard by now that we're publishing a book consisting of our best content from 2002. Sign up for the book is going well, but we could still use a few more. This update answers some of the questions we've received so far.
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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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