Version Control - Part 4 - Rolling Back
Part 4 of Steve Jones' series on version control. This article examines how back out your changes from your live systems.
Version Control -Part 1- Dealing with Code
Part 1 of Steve Jones series on version control and SQL Server. This article examines how you can work with version control and SQL objects.
Follow-Up on Cursor Options
In this follow-up to a previous article, Aaron Bertrand reiterates that – while you should never just accept the defaults – you really should think about which options are most applicable to your scenario.
Shorten Audits, Tighten Security with Minion Enterprise
Minion Enterprise can help you with security management in an enterprise.
Automatic UNDO in Oracle
Automatic UNDO Management isn't voodoo or black magic, although it can seem that way when it isn't clearly understood. How does Oracle decide how many UNDO segments to create at startup, and what is the underlying goal of the process? David Fitzjarrell investigates.
What Can You Do?
Security alerts and concerns are serious, but that doesn't mean that everyone will treat them that way.
Write Cleaner T-SQL Using Version Control
If we only use version control as a way to back up our code then it is pure overhead but actually there are real benefits. We can use source control to write better, cleaner, more readable code.
Power Query Formula Language in Power BI Desktop
The Power Query Formula Language (PQFL) is a functional language that drives the Power BI transformations, and allows you to create mashup queries from scratch. In this article, Rob Sheldon demonstrates how to use it in Power BI Desktop to extract data from its source, filter rows, specify the columns, clean the data, and create visualisations.
SQL Server Stored Procedures and SET options
SET options on stored Procedures work a bit different when compared with ad-hoc queries. These differences in behavior are often overlooked when developing the procedures and generating deployment scripts. This mistake can lead to undesired behavior in the application.
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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