Articles

External Article

Showplan Operator of the Week - Merge Interval

When Fabiano agreed to undertake the epic task of describing each showplan operator, none of us quite predicted the interesting ways that the series helps to understand how the query optimizer works. With the Merge Interval, Fabiano comes up with some insights about the way that the Query optimizer handles overlapping ranges efficiently.

2011-01-28

3,071 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Master Immersion Events from SQLskills.com

A new series of courses is available from SQLskills to help you better learn to manage and tune your SQL Server instances. These classes are designed to help you complete the MCM certification, but are also valuable for anyone that wants to become a better SQL Server DBA.

(4)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-01-27 (first published: )

2,059 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

SQL Server Central Webinar Series #8: Creating smaller and comprehensively verified backups

The next webinar from SQLServerCentral will look at backups and how you can create faster, smaller, and verified backups. Join Steve Jones and Rodney Landrum for this presentation on SQL Backup Pro and SQL Virtual Restore

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2011-01-27 (first published: )

1,922 reads

External Article

ERROR_PROCEDURE Does Not Return a Schema Name

"A recent blog entry I read reminded me again that I wanted to rant about an issue in SQL Server for quite some time now. SQL Server 2005 introduced the separation between user and schema. Though schemata already existed before SQL Server 2005, they really became usable with this version, imho. At the same time TRY...CATCH was a new way for structured error handling introduced. And so it finally became possible…"

2011-01-26

2,799 reads

Blogs

Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows

By

A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...

JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger

By

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

After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Breaking SQL Server for disaster recovery practice

By chapwolff

Hey all. I understand if this gets taken down due to the subject matter...

Creating a JSON Document I

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Creating a JSON Document I

Who is Irresponsible?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Who is Irresponsible?

Visit the forum

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  1933
If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

See possible answers