Due to a recent rebuild of the master database for a SQL Server instance, I now need to restore the msdb and model databases. In this tip we walk through the process that you need to follow to restore the model and msdb databases successfully.
2012-01-19
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As a DBA, we often setup monitoring to receive job failure notification, but when it comes to SSIS packages, we either do not capture the job failure (if the job runs through the command prompt) or we have no idea why it failed. In this article, I'd like to walk you through how to enable the logging functionality for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and how to capture detailed information for immediate troubleshooting without "re-run" the package.
2012-01-18
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A Multicast Transformation can be used to write the same data file to multiple network folders, but it can be tedious and time-consuming to set up as the number of destination files grows. Learn how you can use this transformation in this article by Stan Kulp.
2012-01-17
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2012-01-17 (first published: 2010-07-14)
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A SQL expression may look elegant on the page but it is only valuable if its performance is good. Do window functions run quicker than their conventional equivalent code? Fabiano Amorim gives a definitive answer.
2012-01-17
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How do you grant a SQL Server developer truncate table permission without giving them the ability to alter the table? Check out the examples and explanation in this tip.
2012-01-16
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The second of a series by Paul White examining the APPLY operator. In this section learn how this operator compares with joins and about both the cross and outer options.
2012-01-13 (first published: 2010-04-19)
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Sometimes the requirement arises to provide a copy of your database to an off-site location, such as a disaster recovery datacenter. Log Shipping is one of the most popular, proven technologies used to create a copy of your databases on a remote server.
2012-01-13
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Part II of a discussion and demonstration of ETL of a CSV data file using SSIS.
2012-01-12
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2012-01-12 (first published: 2010-07-07)
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By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers