PASS Summit 2019 – spending the time
The session line up for PASS Summit 2019 was announced today...there are so many good sessions to go to..managing time and what we do with our limited time there...
2019-08-08
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Mala Mahadevan
Querying Temporal Tables
Temporal tables a.k.a Table Versioning was introduced in SQL Server 2016 and is an easy, convenient way to track changes to data. A good introduction to temporal tables can be found here. One of the key advantages of versioning tables is easy of querying – or getting a ‘single pane of glass’ look of how […]
2019-07-29
14,976 reads
Pathways to Progress
One of the most significant and hardest challenges we face as data professionals (or generally anyone in IT) is how to keep up with learning. Most of us are...
2019-06-05 (first published: 2019-05-17)
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PASS turns 20
Its really hard to believe that its been 20 years since the start of the PASS organization – the volunteer run...
2019-03-19
836 reads
WIT Panel for Women’s History Month
I cannot write this without stating some history. I have been part of PASS community since 1999. That is 21...
2019-03-11
216 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 109: To influence and to be influenced
The last T-SQL Tuesday of this year is hosted by Jason Brimhall – one of my long-time friends in the SQL...
2018-12-12
124 reads
Epic Life Quest – looking back
This will be my last post for the year. In this am going to look back on goals I set...
2018-12-03
731 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 108 – Learning R
I am the proud host of TSQL Tuesday for the month of November 2018.
My call to post entries is here ....
2018-11-28 (first published: 2018-11-18)
2,231 reads
Counting blessings – from Summit V2.0 and beyond
I have been a regular attendee at PASS Summit for 15 years now. This year (2018) marked my 15th year...
2018-11-22
197 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 108 – A poetic summary
This is November and T-SQL Tuesday time,
I hope you are ready to read the summary – I am the host and...
2018-11-19
175 reads
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
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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;
What are the results? See possible answers