Power BI - How to Download and Get Started
In this article learn how to download, install and get started building your first Power BI report using SQL Server data.
A Culture That Allows Mistakes
The culture in which we work is important. Having a culture that accepts and allows mistakes can help your organization. Not having this can make the environment much worse.
PerfMon: Using SQL Server Performance Counters
Learn how you can use Windows Performance Monitor and the PAL to gather metrics from your SQL Server instances.
DevOps Collaboration and Process Visibility in Flyway Developments
A brief history of the DevOps movement and a discussion of the pivotal role of a tool like Flyway in the DevOps toolchain, when developing and delivering database changes.
How to troubleshoot and fix PostgreSQL performance issues
PostgreSQL database performance is critical for application performance. EzzEddin Abdullah shows how to get information about a query’s performance from the execution plan.
How to Connect to an Analysis Services Database in Power BI
Learn how to work with SSAS data in Power BI in this article.
Taming Database Documentation with Flyway and MySQL
Database object documentation is essential for explaining to busy developers, and the wider business, the purpose of each object and how to use it. The solution presented in this article consists of a SQL script to allow developers to add comments to MySQL database objects, without affecting the database version, and a simple way to generate a documentation report, in JSON. The SQL script will execute automatically as a callback, during any Flyway Teams migration run, and the report will allow the team to spot any gaps quickly.
T-SQL Comment Best Practices for SQL Server
Learn different ways to add comments to your T-SQL code when working with SQL Server along with several examples.
Time To Recharge
Redgate is a great place to work for a lot of reasons. One of those has come up for me. It's time for my sabbatical. Every five years we get six weeks paid leave. Mine starts Monday. I'll still be clearing out my email (the thought of six weeks worth gives me horrors), and I'll […]
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers