Sheldon Hull

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Dataedo - First Look

Diagraming and Documentation
Previously, I've written up on database diagramming for visualization of database structures. Check that out for more detailed...

2017-08-07

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InfluxDB and Annotations

This post assumes you've already setup InfluxDB and have Grafana running.
Inserting annotations Annotations are not a special type of resource, instead it's just another metric that you query with...

2017-08-07

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Dataedo - First Look

update 2019-02-22
Image links broken. Since their product is continually improving, I'm going to just link to their product here instead so you can review their latest demo content there....

2017-08-07

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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
8Kirin
I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
    BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results?

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