Getting Started with GitFlow
In this article, Diogo Souza explains GitFlow, a branching model for Git. He demonstrates how to work with GitFlow to create and deploy a feature and a hotfix to GitHub.
Power BI Incremental Refresh for SQL Sources
In this article we look at the incremental refresh feature when working with Power BI data sources and how to implement for your reports.
Digging Into Internals
There are plenty of experts that look to teach you about query tuning and the internals of query execution in SQL Server.
Replicate NetSuite Data to Azure SQL (SSIS in Azure Data Factory)
With Azure Data Factory V2 Integration Runtimes (ADFv2 IR), you can deploy enterprise replication tasks to the Azure cloud.
Your Data After Life
Today Steve thinks about what to do when planning for your digital assets after you pass.
6 New Courses Published on the Redgate University
Master the fundamentals of Redgate products with easy to follow video courses on Redgate University. This month 6 new courses have been published to help you advance your skills including courses on SQL Prompt, SQL Monitor, SQL Change Automation, SQL Compare, and Database DevOps for Oracle. All brought to you by some amazing presenters like Kendra Little, Grant Fritchey, Kathi Kellenberger and the Redgate team of experts. Start learning now!
Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 2 Best Practices and Guidelines
In the second article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates some ways to design and populate a columnstore index to get even better performance.
Carefully Giving Normal Users Security Permissions
When we need to delegate work to less privileged users, Steve has an idea.
Automate Responses to Bad Deployments with SQL Monitor
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Blogs
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T-SQL Tuesday #198–Change Detection
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Question of the Day
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