Waits and Queues
This week Steve is wondering if you know how to use waits and queues for troubleshooting.
Improve Data Quality for SQL Server Reporting
Poor data quality for any reason is very expensive in terms of man hours and decision making to all organizations. There are a number of ways to address the issue with both SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI.
Scaling SQL Monitor with your growing estate
Tony Davis describes the features and capabilities of SQL Monitor that allow it to scale smoothly to monitor a growing estate of servers and databases, while still providing a single, simple dashboard that gives the team all of the essential SQL Server metrics and alerts, establishes baselines, and detects trends in behavior.
Don't Get On This Page
There is a page where GDPR fines are tracked. None of us want to get on that page.
Let’s Start with Architecture
In this article, we look at the conceptual design for gathering information about your servers to better understand how they are performing.
New Release: SQL Clone 4
Introducing the new “Teams” feature in SQL Clone. Define access to instances, images and clones for specific teams and enable devs to self-service, refreshing environments on demand.
Yes and No Questions Are Not So Simple
Joe Celko explains why questions requiring yes or no answers are more complicated than you might realize in both spoken language and computing.
Stairway to SQL Server Security Level 3: Principals and Securables
What is a SQL Server principal? And what does it get a permission on? In this stairway level, you’ll learn about the various principals that can be authorized through permissions to perform actions and access securable objects in the SQL Server instance.
The OUTPUT Command
SQL Server 2005 has added many new T-SQL commands, one of which is the OUTPUT command. Longtime SQL Server author Dinesh Asanka brings us a short look at how you can use this command.
Integrating Redgate SQL Code Guard with SonarQube
Greta Rudžioniene provides a step-by-step guide to running SQL code analysis checks, as defined by SQL Code Guard, in SonarQube, a general-purpose code quality tool that can perform continuous code analysis on a variety of languages.
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
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...
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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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