Guidance on Moving Off of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2
July 9, 2019 will be here soon. With it comes the end of support, including security updates for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 unless you either...
2019-06-21
53 reads
Brian Kelley
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Why Security Through Obscurity Is Bad (Alone)
Security through (by) obscurity is where we try to protect an asset by hiding it. Anyone who has ever played the game Capture the Flag knows that a motivated...
2019-06-21 (first published: 2019-06-05)
396 reads
Amazon’s Concept of Ownership and Technical Debt
I’m reading Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader. In talking about Amazon’s pursuit of a second headquarters, John Rossman wrote the following regarding ownership: Amazon’s second leadership...
2019-06-12
381 reads
#tsql2sday – A Letter to My 20 Year-Old Self
Self, I am writing this to you in my mid 40s. I know when I was 20, I wasn’t thinking about 30, much less 40. Here’s some advice I’d...
2019-06-11
38 reads
Building Your Brand Right
I was interviewed yesterday by Stephen Wynkoop (twitter) for the upcoming SSWUG Virtual Conference on May 23rd. One of the questions was about how to keep management engaged on...
2019-06-07 (first published: 2019-05-21)
481 reads
Mitre’s ATT&CK Security Framework
Mitre’s ATT&CK security framework was mentioned often at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics Conference. I admit that I’m not well-versed on it, yet. However, its purpose makes sense....
2019-06-07
55 reads
Sysinternals – A Swiss Army Knife for IT Pros
I’m at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics conference in Myrtle Beach again this year. I sat in on a presentation about performing malware analysis. The analyst began with...
2019-06-06
451 reads
Security Controls: CISA vs. CISSP
When looking at the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam, we focus on teaching 3 types of controls: Preventative – keeps an incident from occurring Detective – Identifies the...
2019-06-04
304 reads
Mini-Rant: Spoofed Phone Numbers and Trust
I’ve seen this more and more over the last year: I receive a phone call with a number that indicates it’s coming from a town or city near me....
2019-05-24
191 reads
Same Webcast, New Name: Introduction to Auditing Features in SQL Server
I’m giving another webcast through MSSQLTips.com. This one is on May 9, 2019, at 3 PM EDT. It’s called Introduction to Auditing Features in SQL Server. We renamed it...
2019-05-07
24 reads
Blogs
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...
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
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