Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, made it on my reading list after hearing about Mark Zuckerberg’s...
2016-06-08
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Blog Posts
Comparing the contents of two tables Redux
I did a post the other day on comparing two tables. It was meant as a general overview but I...
2016-06-08
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IT People’s Technical Debt and Reputation Credit
In Canada and USA, when people apply for a credit card or a loan/mortgage, the lending institutions will always do...
2016-06-08 (first published: 2016-06-01)
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OBJECT_ID()–#SQLNewBlogger
One of the things that is needed in quite a few functions is the object_id of a particular table/view/procedure/function in...
2016-06-08
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What has 2 Thumbs and Deleted a LUN with the Log File of a Production DB on it?
That’s right, I did it. I was deleting unused LUNs and the focus somehow jumped from the LUNs for the...
2016-06-08 (first published: 2016-06-01)
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Conditional Formatting and Quick Calcs in Power BI Desktop
There’s a new update out of Power BI Desktop (May 2016), but at the time of writing there’s no official...
2016-06-07 (first published: 2016-05-31)
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Incomp…
This is about analytics.
This is about day to day life.
This is also about how the things should not being done.
Incomp…...
2016-06-07
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InsideSQL–The Deep Dive
There’s a new conference in London next week, the InsideSQL conference on June 14th. It’s at the CodeNode venue, near...
2016-06-07
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 02 – Enlighten Aquarium)
In this module you will learn how to use the Enlighten Aquarium Power BI Custom Visual. While it might not...
2016-06-07
1,840 reads
Quick Tests for a Function
I was writing a poorly performing UDF the other day and then wanted to replace it with a better performing...
2016-06-07 (first published: 2016-06-02)
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Blogs
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Daily aggregation of Azure Blob Storage by tier (created/tier-change/deleted)
Hello all, I’m looking for advice on how to derive a daily snapshot table...
SQL 2017 to SQL 2025. Good to Go ?
We need to replace our Windows server running SQL 2017. Any reason not to...
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 beerIf I run this, what is returned?
select t1.key
from openjson((select t.* FROM Beer AS t for json path)) t1 See possible answers