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Delete Duplicate Rows with No Primary Key on a SQL Server Table
Every once in awhile a table gets created without a primary key and duplicate records get entered. The problem gets even worse when you have two identical rows in the table and there is no way to distinguish between the two rows. So how do you delete the duplicate record?
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Using Azure Blueprints to deploy Azure SQL Server and Database with Key Vault Secrets
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2020-09-08
Transfer data from SQL Server to MySQL
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Installing PostgreSQL 11 on Windows with Step-by-step Instructions
PostgreSQL is a free database management system (DBMS). PostgreSQL 11 is the new version of this DBMS. We will take a look at how to install PostgreSQL 11 on Windows. This article covers where to download PostgreSQL 11, how the installation process looks like, and how to connect to the PostgreSQL server. Step-by-Step Installation on Windows […]
2020-09-03
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How do You Identify Object Dependencies in SQL Server
In this article we look at different ways to determine if one SQL Server database object is dependent on another database object.
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Database Modeling - Relationships
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2020-08-31
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SQL Server Problems We Don’t Have Anymore
There are a whole slew of problems that we had to worry about ten years ago, and they just hardly ever come up today.
2020-08-28
SQL Server Interview Questions for Developers on Querying
In this article we look at some simple ways to test a SQL Server developers T-SQL skills with some query questions and answers.
2020-08-26
Getting started with SQL Server stored procedures
In this article we look at different examples of creating SQL Server stored procedures.
2020-08-20
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
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 TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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