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Vectors in SQL Server 2025
Introduction SQL Server 2025 introduced new features, including vectors. The main purpose of vectors is to create a new semantic search with the help of AI. Modern AI models represent text as vectors (embeddings) that capture semantic meaning. Similar meanings produce vectors that are close to each other in this vector space, allowing AI systems to […]
SQL Server Concurrency Issues with Parallel Query Plans
Parallelism can reduce concurrency. This is a strong reason not to allow SQL Server to execute queries aggressively in parallel mode. In this tip, I will set up a demo to show that parallelism reduces query performance on a server with high concurrency.
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
Learn how you can add transactional replication to an AG to move data to an Azure SQL Database.
Why disabling the SQL Server sa account still matters in 2026
Every few years, someone asks a familiar question: do we really still need to disable the sa account in SQL Server? After all, it’s 2026. SQL Server has better encryption, better auditing, better defaults, and more security features than ever before. Surely this old guidance belongs in the past?
Answering Questions On Dropped Columns
Answering a couple of questions from the previous posts about dropping columns.
Changing Data Types
Steve had to deal with a customer that changed data types in columns often. Is that something you experience?
Query Hint Recommendation Tool in SSMS 22
SQL Server Management Studio keeps adding features, but unless you look you probably don’t notice. In this article, we look at the new Query Hint Recommendation Tool in SSMS 2022 and how this can be used.
Webinar: Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits
You know you shouldn't have production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. Join this webinar on Mar 18 to learn more.
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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