2017-10-09
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Editorials
The Achilles Heel
In a long career in IT, Phil Factor cannot recall a 'major incident', where the failure or breach was due to a single 'Achilles Heel', or even a single team of people. They are always due to a whole plethora of slack and ignorant practices.
2017-10-09
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Why Don't You Unit Test Code?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what you think of testing code and why you don't do it.
2017-10-06
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Teaching Quickly
Steve Jones talks about learning, teaching, and the need to not waste anyone's time.
2017-10-05
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Rewrite Your Code Tomorrow
Steve Jones notes that we often solve problems better the second time around.
2017-10-04
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2017-10-03
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2017-10-02
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The Worms-eye View
Even the most elaborate team-based development methodology won't compensate for the blinkered attitudes and tribal cultures that come from over-specialization in IT.
2017-10-02
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2017-09-29
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2017-09-28
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Blogs
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...
Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
By gbargsley
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home...
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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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