First Impressions
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Microsoft SQL Server “Denali” (CTP1) – 11.0.1103.9 (X64)
I’ve been playing with the CTP for a few days (with absolutely no...
2010-11-09
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Gail Shaw
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A Trio of Table Variables
So, it’s the second Tuesday of the month again, and it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again. This month it’s hosted...
2010-10-12
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One wide index or multiple narrow indexes?
Or “If one index is good, surely many indexes (indexes? indices? indi?) will be better”
This is a question that comes...
2010-09-14
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Come and gone
Or “Plan cache monitoring – insert and remove”
Previously I took a look at the CacheHit and CacheMiss events to see how...
2010-08-31
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Hit and miss
Or “Monitoring plan cache usage”
For people interested in the details of how SQL is using and reusing execution plans, there...
2010-07-27
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Does a missing data file send a database suspect?
Short answer: No
I keep seeing this come up on various forums when people ask what makes a database go suspect...
2010-06-29
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DBA Hell
On the first day of DBA hell, the server gave to me
A database with damaged system tables and no good...
2010-06-15
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In, Exists and join – a roundup
Over the last several months I’ve had a look at IN, Exists, Join and their opposites to see how they...
2010-04-27
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Help, my database is corrupt. Now what?
The stuff of nightmares, a corrupt database. However Gail Shaw gives you some advice about how to handle this situation.
2010-04-23 (first published: 2009-02-16)
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2010-04-01
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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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Testing is Becoming More Important
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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