Muthusamy Anantha Kumar, a.k.a. MAK, has more than 10 years of experience in Information Technology including database Administration, System Analysis, Design, Development and Support of MS SQL Server 2005/2000/7.0/6.5/6.0/4.X for production/development/testing.

MAK started his first consulting service “JVCC” in Trichy, Tamilnadu, India. Then JVCC was matured to become “Softech Systems”, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. MAK started teaching when he was 18 and continued teaching. As a part of service to the community, MAK’s started teaching MS-DOS, Word star, Lotus 123, dBase III +, C language, Autocad etc, MS-office, . He made more than 200 students aware of computers, programming languages and databases. MAK continued his teaching by teaching SQL Server administration and produced more than one hundred Professional Database Administrators.

MAK wrote many online articles for DatabaseJournal. He also wrote article for sql-server-performance.com. Now he is writing for us as well.

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Creating JSON III

In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data: 

BeerIDBeerName
1Becks
2Fat Tire
3Mac n Jacks
4Alaskan Amber
8Kirin
I run this code: 
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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