Migrate Key-Value Pairs from Python Dictionary to SQL Server via JSON
This article will demonstrate how to migrate via JSON, key-value pairs from a Python dictionary object to a SQL Server table.
2021-07-16
T-SQL
Mergers and acquisitions in Insurance
The insurance sector has seen a marked rise in mergers and acquisitions over the past 12 months, and although these can be an excellent way to leap beyond organic growth, M&As can result in challenges with technology. In this blog, COEO's James Boother provides some tips on how, with good planning, technologies can be a real advantage in your next acquisition.
2021-07-14
What does SET NOCOUNT ON do?
When you’re working with T-SQL, you’ll often see SET NOCOUNT ON at the beginning of stored procedures and triggers. What SET NCOUNT ON does is prevent the “1 row affected” messages from being returned for every operation. Read Brent's blog to see him demo it by writing a stored procedure in the Stack Overflow database.
2021-07-05
Opening JSON Data with T-SQL
The T-SQL code samples in this tip illustrate ways of displaying JSON formatted data in SQL Server as well as how to transfer JSON formatted data to SQL Server tables.
2021-06-25
SQL Server Resource Governor Game
Learn about the SQL Server Resource Governor and how it can be used to manage your SQL Server workloads via this game format that can help your team gain better insights.
2021-06-09
SQL Server T-SQL CASE Statement Examples
This tip will teach you when and how you can use CASE in T-SQL statements with several code examples to give you a better understanding.
2021-05-14
Never, Ever, Ever Start T-SQL Comments with Two Dashes
In this article, Brent Ozar explains why you should avoid starting T-SQL comments with two dashes.
2021-04-26
What is interpolation?
In this article, Joe Celko explains interpolation and covers a bit about the history and what we all did before computers.
2021-03-31
Scripts to Automate Creating and Loading a SQL Server Table
Use these T-SQL strategies for dropping, creating, and populating tables in custom schemas across different SQL Server versions from SQL Server 2019 back to SQL Server 2005.
2021-03-24
A data transformation problem in SQL and Scala: Dovetailing declarative solutions
This article is an interesting approach to solving a data transformation problem in SQL and Scala. Shel Burkow uses a SQL execution plan for software design.
2021-03-18
Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
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I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers