Understanding Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication, Part 2
As the Peer-to-Peer series continues, we set up an example topology in Peer-to-Peer Transactional replication and test it.
Have Availability Groups Gotten Easier Lately?
2018 is coming to an end, and AGs have been out for 6 years. They're stable now, right?
Porting SQLServerCentral
Steve talks about the project underway to port the SQLServerCentral codebase.
Building a Collaborative Platform to Speed up Data Analysis
In this article, Feodor demonstrates the architecture, workflow, and some of the challenges of a collaborative platform (cloud foundation) for speeding up enterprises in their search for analytical power. He uses an example from the EA Billing solution, which was presented in the previous articles of the series.
Better Static Code Analysis and Security Scans
One of the best ways to improve software is to evaluate it sooner, which includes static analysis. We don't have many tools for database code, but we need more.
Auto Generate NetBackup script to backup SQL Server databases
In this tip we look at how we can use SQL Server to auto generate a backup script for NetBackup to make sure we backup the required databases.
The Bones of SQL - The Holiday Table
This second part to a previous article on Calendar table generation shows how to create a holiday table containing both fixed-date and variable-date holidays.
SQL Server 2019 Community Technical Preview (CTP) 2.1 is Available Now
Microsoft announced the release or CTP 2.1 for SQL Server 2019. This is the second CTP released for SQL Server 2019, and it has lots of new exciting features, like " UDF inlining". Read on to find out more!
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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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