Changing SQL Server Agent Jobs Ownership: Who should own SQL Server Agent Jobs
I writing this blog post as a result of the following two questions, which I’ve been asked by one of...
2014-04-04
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Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Availability databases in unhealthy data synchronization state (Error: 35285, Severity: 16, State: 1.)
After power surge last night, I realized few availability databases (also known as a “database replica”) have an unhealthy data...
2014-04-02
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Verify a success of database backups
One of the most important tasks on a DBA’s to-do list is backing up databases on a regular basis. This...
2014-03-16
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Tables without Clustered Indexes?
Today, we experienced performance issues with some of the SSRS reports that were deployed as part of the latest application/database...
2014-03-13
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Different approaches of counting number of rows in a table
Today, I received an email from the developer asking if there is a better way instead of the COUNT (*) Transact-SQL...
2014-03-06
1,424 reads
Rebuild all indexes on all tables in the SQL Server database
One of the key tasks of a DBA is to maintain the database indexes and make sure they are not...
2014-02-23
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Removing part of string before and after specific character using Transact-SQL string functions
Problem
Today, one of the developers come to me and asked me the question that is there any T-SQL function that...
2014-02-23
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Get performance statistics for queries and query plans that are cached by SQL Server for faster query execution
You can use the following two DMVs to give you that information:
sys.dm_exec_cached_plans – You can use this dynamic management view to...
2014-02-17
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Transact-SQL query to obtain basic information about partitioned tables
Here is the simple query that returns basic information about all tables in a database that are partitioned:
SELECT SCHEMA_NAME([schema_id]) AS...
2014-02-17
1,516 reads
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) query to return the status and detail information for all SQL Server Full-Text Catalogs on an SQL Server instance
We have about 200 user databases in which we have the full-text search enabled and these databases contain several tables....
2014-01-27
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Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
how to write this query?
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
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