SQL Saturday #57 – Houston
SQL Saturday #57 was this weekend! Sean and I went, talked, webshow-ed, and then presented a total of SIX sessions!
Travel
Sean and...
2011-01-31
1,637 reads
Jen McCown
Un-SQL Friday #002 Roundup (finally)
The invitation for Un-SQL Friday #002 (Tech Giants) was, like, a week ago! I’ve gotta get this train a-rollin, or...
2011-01-28
959 reads
My Surprise MVP Party
Two Fridays ago, Sean and I sat down for our weekly DBAs@Midnight webshow* as usual. Unusually, we were expecting an out-of-town...
2011-01-24
579 reads
RTFM365, Week 7
[Commence whine-a-thon, thinly veiled as an introductory paragraph to a blog.]
As I knew it would, it is getting VERY difficult...
2011-01-24
487 reads
Blog Sins
Thoughts come together, and the hybridization of your thoughts give rise to new ideas. Here are the thoughts:
I have this...
2011-01-21
673 reads
Un-SQL Friday: Your Tech Giants
This started as just a regular blog…but it’s sparked such a big conversation online, I’ve decided to make it an...
2011-01-19
1,080 reads
Who do you want to see at SQLRally and 24HOP?
I dig democracy: I like all this voting for SQL sessions at events.
Voting is open this week, Jan17 – 23, for...
2011-01-19
615 reads
RTFM365, Week 6
Just a quick note this week….things are quite crazy right now, and I’m struggling to keep reading on my days...
2011-01-18
435 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #014 Roundup
Wow…the inagural 2011 T-SQL Tuesday was so big, it lasted a week! A few quick observations, then on to the...
2011-01-18
1,271 reads
T-SQL Tuesday: Resolutions
In my invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #014, I picked the topic “Resolutions”, clearly to play on the new year. The...
2011-01-11
751 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
Forums
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