Manish Kumar

Manish is a Data warehouse/Business Intelligence Solution expert. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications with 11+ years of experience resulting from associations with organizations such as Mahindra Satyam, Verizon, ITC Infotech and Aditi Technologies. While associated with these companies, he has had the opportunity to work with well-known names such as Microsoft (R&D, AdCenter India) and Danske Bank Denmark. He is MCITP (SQL 2008 Business Intelligence Developer) certified and his skills and expertise include Design and Architecture definition for BI/DW solutions. He has successfully implemented various BI & DW projects with coverage across ETL, Data Modeling, OLAP, Data Analysis, Data Quality, Analytical Reporting, Data Mining, Dash Board design and implementation as well in fine tuning complex queries and databases.

Manish’s hobbies include writing and reading Hindi poems, cooking, hiking , sports, philanthropy, sharing technical knowledge and listening to music.

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RANKING Function in plain SQL

Below examples will show that we can still write a pure sql query for RANK, DENSE_RANK and ROW_NUMBER without using RANK() function.DECLARE @StudentScore TABLE(StudentName VARCHAR(1),StudentScore INT)INSERT  @StudentScore VALUES ('A',85),...

2012-06-11

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SQL Azure Federation

 What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.It is also known as...

2012-04-25

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SQL Azure Federation

 What is Federation?

Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.
It is also known as Sharding.
There can be multiple federations in a database.
It is...

2012-04-25

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CONCAT in SQL 2012

SQL Server 2012 introduces a brand new string function called CONCAT(). CONCAT() string function allows you to concatenate up to 255 string or variable values in to one single...

2012-04-20

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CONCAT in SQL 2012

SQL Server 2012 introduces a brand new string function called CONCAT(). CONCAT() string function allows you to concatenate up to...

2012-04-19

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Question of the Day

Using OPENJSON

I have some data in a table that looks like this:

BeerID BeerName    brewer               beerdescription
1      Becks       Interbrew            Beck's is a German-style pilsner beer 
2      Fat Tire    New Belgium          Toasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness.
3      Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery This beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste
4      Alaskan Amber Alaskan Brewing     Alaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer
8      Kirin       Kirin Brewing         Kirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beer
If I run this, what is returned?
select t1.[key]
    from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1

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