House Price Predictions @ PASS 2015
The PASS speakers were announced a quite a number of weeks ago now for PASS 2015 in October – and I felt pretty damn honored to be one of the 160 or...
2015-09-07
5 reads
SQL Sentry Grows in the UK and Beyond
Announcing two new UK-based SQL Sentry global technology evangelists. Please help me welcome John Martin and Richard Douglas.
The post SQL Sentry Grows in the UK and Beyond appeared first...
2015-08-07
13 reads
Professional Development – A Recipe for Success
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Joe Webb’s father-in-law spent most of his adult life as a cardiologist. That’s a highly specialized and highly technical area in the field of medicine that...
2015-08-06
8 reads
DBTA – StretchDB, a Cool New Feature in vNext SQL Server
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. When it comes to cloud-based database management, there are really only two players: Amazon, the value leader,...
2015-08-05
12 reads
Professional Development – What a Difference 60 Years Makes
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. In 1957, the Soviet-made Sputnik streaked across the sky in low earth orbit. It was clearly visible to millions of concerned Americans. The Soviet government...
2015-07-30
13 reads
DBTA – IT Employers Must Adapt to the Looming DBA Shortage
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In the first of this three-part series, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing...
2015-07-29
17 reads
2015-07-24
4 reads
Professional Development – Set the Bar High
Originally appearing at ForITPros.com. Henry Ford is reported to have once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.” That’s great insight. Too often...
2015-07-23
9 reads
DBTA – Does the Looming Shortage in DBAs Spell Opportunity?
Originally appearing in my monthly column at Database Trends & Applications magazine. In my last column, available HERE, I described some of the findings contained in an intriguing new...
2015-07-22
10 reads
Implementing Partial Backups and Restores (via Leveraging Partitions)
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Continuing on with my Partitioning post series, this is part 5. The partitioning includes several major components of work (and can be linked...
2015-07-06
13 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)...
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Azure Synapse database refresh
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how to write this query?
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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