The Details are in the Small Print
Phil Factor on the rewards of learning the zen-like skill of writing, reading and understanding IT documentation.
Introducing DevOps to Farm Credit Services of America
Identifying a need for better collaboration between teams is only the first step to introducing DevOps workflows into your organization. You also need to define a common DevOps goal,...
Only as Good as Your Auditor
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about auditing your organization.
Understanding Graphical Execution Plans - Part 1: Explaining the Plan
Understanding execution plans is a good basic skill for all DBA's and SQL developers. Darren White gives us an overview of what execution plans are in SQL Server and how they are used.
TroubleShooting SQL Server Memory Consumption
Satnam Singh walks through the steps he took to troubleshoot a recent issue with memory consumption on a staging server.
Azure DWH Part 5: How to work with the command line in Azure SQL DW
This time we will work with the sqlcmd to handle our Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Database Cattle
Steve Jones says you should treat your database servers like cattle. It makes life easier.
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
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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