Containing the Work
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Creative IT Learning
If a successful IT career is just as much about tenacity, interest and retention as it is about brainpower, then how does one go about continuous learning?
Detective Stories - Tracking Down the Database's Dependents Part I
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Project Bletchley - The Microsoft Vision for Blockchain
The SQL Server Luxembourg User Group invites you to join us at our next event in Microsoft’s Offices, at 6:00pm on Tuesday 7th March
Finding the Worst Performing TSQL Statement
Greg Larsen explains how you can use Dynamic Management Objects and stored procedures to return your worst performing T-SQL statements.
A Welcome Delay
An open letter to Microsoft from the CEO of Mandriva Linux might not have been the best idea.
Null Defaults
Today Steve Jones asks what default values you might choose for new columns in a table.
Usage of CTE - Trick with Dates
This article exlores the usage of CTEs as a replacement to cursors in order to generate additional data by applying logic to existing data.
Clone a SQL Server login and password to a new server
Bhavesh Patel shows how to clone a SQL Server login onto another server while keeping the password the same.
Configure SSRS with an SSL Certificate
A short demonstration on how to configure Reporting Services (SSRS) with an SSL certificate.
Blogs
Data Engineering Books Worth Having on Your Shelf (or your tablet)
Good documentation gets you started. Good books get you deep. After years of working...
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...
Forums
Creating a JSON Document IV
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Restoring Azure Key Vault Keys and Validating SQL Server TDE Recovery: Level 7 of the Stairway to TDE
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Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
When the schema of an object is changed, SQL Server wipes out the previous...
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