[Video] SQL Server Deadlocks
SQL Server Deadlocks – Also known as “The deadly Embrace” occurs when there are 2 processes and neither can advance and...
2017-09-08 (first published: 2017-08-24)
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Arun Sirpal
DBCC CHECKDB Azure SQL Database
Who should be running DBCC CHECKDB for Azure SQL Database? Should it be Microsoft or should customers be scheduling it?...
2017-09-04
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Azure SQL Database – Scaling up
Scaling up and down your SQL Database is something that is quite common to do. I want to discuss the...
2017-09-01 (first published: 2017-08-23)
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SSMS and MFA support for Azure SQL DB
Quite a mouth full for a title but never the less very exciting. With the new version of SQL Server...
2017-08-30
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Azure Cloud “Fear” Busting #4 – Losing Control?
So the decision to move to the cloud has been made but there is a fear from people that once...
2017-08-25 (first published: 2017-08-14)
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Azure Automation and SQL Index Maintenance
Azure does a lot for your SQL Database, from backups to automatic tuning but it still doesn’t have an index...
2017-08-21
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SQL Server – So you like to shrink do you?
If you do – shame on you and shame on me because I do.
Moving on, I found strange behaviour within SQL...
2017-08-16
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Interviews and Oranges
What a great topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Kendra Little https://littlekendra.com/2017/08/01/tsql-tuesday-93-interviewing-patterns-anti-patterns/
The topic being: Interviewing Patterns and Anti-Patterns....
2017-08-08
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Azure Cloud “Fear” Busting #2 – Seeking for Better Performance
We all want high performing applications and when you are in the cloud that is no different, if anything it...
2017-08-07 (first published: 2017-07-20)
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Azure Cloud “Fear” Busting #3 – There is no going back?
Once you go cloud, there is no going back. This is false and from a database perspective you can migrate...
2017-08-07
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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