T-SQL Tuesday #102: Giving Back
Last month we had the opportunity to discuss some of the most important tools for a data professional. I took...
2018-05-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #102: Giving Back
This is my diatribe about service and giving back to the community. When done properly, there is a natural born effect of enhancing one's personal life equal in some...
2018-05-09
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Change SQL Server Collation – Back to Basics
One of my most favorite things in the world is the opportunity to deal with extremely varying database and environment...
2018-04-19 (first published: 2018-04-12)
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Change SQL Server Collation – Back to Basics
Every now and again we have to deal with a sudden requirements change. When that happens, we sometimes just need to take a step back and evaluate the entire...
2018-04-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #101: Essential Tools
What are the tools you love to use? What are the tools that maybe need a little sharpening? What tools...
2018-04-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #101: Essential Tools
What are the tools you love to use? What are the tools that maybe need a little sharpening? What tools do you have that maybe you wish were the...
2018-04-10
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Syspolicy Phantom Health Records
SQL Server comes with a default SQL agent job installed (for most installations) to help manage the collection of system...
2018-04-17 (first published: 2018-04-06)
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Syspolicy Phantom Health Records
SQL Server comes with a default SQL agent job installed (for most installations) to help manage the collection of system health data. I would dare say this job is...
2018-04-06
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SQL Server Extended Availability Groups
It may come as no surprise to many that Microsoft has hastened the SQL Server development cycle. Furthermore, it may...
2018-04-01
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SQL Server Extended Availability Groups
It may come as no surprise to many that Microsoft has hastened the SQL Server development cycle. Furthermore, it may be no surprise to many that Microsoft has also...
2018-04-01
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Blogs
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT) returns null when nothing is found instead of 0
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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