The Challenges of Resetting Databases
The challenges of state in databases can impact our development efforts.
So, You Want to Be a DBA…
Many people with tech careers did not follow a straight path to get there. In this article, Pamela Mooney gives some advice for those who would like to be a DBA.
Learning Isn’t Easy, But It’s Vital
This week Grant notes that we need to work on our learning skills, especially as the world continues to drive forward.
Database Snapshot Use Case: Service Migration
In this article, we show how we used Database Snapshots as a rollbackup plan for a database migration from one data centre to another. Database Snapshots proved to be the best route since we sould not afford the time a backup/restore approach would take.
Delivering in a Day
This week Steve wonders if you're want to tackle an exciting project for a day or a week.
Reverse-Engineering the Production Database into Source Control
Starting out a new database development with source control is relatively easy. To introduce source control into an existing database application can be more challenging. Phil Factor explains some of the fundamental steps.
SQL Server Problems We Don’t Have Anymore
There are a whole slew of problems that we had to worry about ten years ago, and they just hardly ever come up today.
Microservices
Steve doesn't think microservices work with relational databases, but maybe you can convince him otherwise.
Date Tables are Great for Users, but Not So Great for Performance
If you haven’t used a date table before, here are a couple of primers on how to create one and use it.
Better Government Security Through DevOps
DevOps can help provide better security for your databases.
Blogs
SSMS Evaluation – future ready
By Vinay Thakur
In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the...
Claude.ai vs Claude API
By Arun Sirpal
You have used Claude. But which Claude? The Claude app (claude.ai, the desktop and...
T-SQL Tuesday #198–Change Detection
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, Meagan Longoria, who graciously agreed to help...
Forums
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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