Password-less Authentication for Azure AD Guest Accounts with Azure SQL DB with Access Tokens
Learn how we can generate tokens that will give access to resources inside Azure without actually adding new users to your domain.
2019-07-01
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Managing Always Encrypted Locally Stored Certificates in PowerShell
Learn how you can automate the creation of the CML and CEK for Always Encrypted in SQL Server
2019-06-10
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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