SQLSat Baton Rouge 2023!
Looking forward to #jambalaya at #SQLSatBR on July 29! Register today: sqlsatbr.comI hope to see as many people as possible that weekend, I'll be there at the Friday night...
2023-07-22 (first published: 2023-07-21)
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Ozurie
Ozurie – feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have. I think many people feel ozurie often. I certainly had a lot of this in...
2023-07-21
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Notes from SQLSaturday South Florida 2023
Quick notes on the event this year: Overall a good event and now I have a few months until SQLSaturday in Orlando in October.
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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Statistics and the Ascending Key Problem
I’ve mentioned previously how not having up to date statistics can cause problems in query performance. This post looks at something called the Ascending Key Problem which can badly...
2023-07-21
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Volunteering at Work: Teaching Others
I give a few talks on career topics, and one of these is Branding Yourself for a Dream Job. In the talk, I sometimes tell a story in the...
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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db_ddladmin Jr.
A while back I talked about the fact that you can grant someone CREATE PROCEDURE and ALTER on a schema ... Continue reading
2023-07-20
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Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
When it comes to query performance, lately the Cardinality Estimates seems to have been a hot topic with each new release of SQL...
2023-07-20 (first published: 2023-07-19)
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Microsoft Fabric Overview
First, thank you to Guy in a Cube for a great licensing/cost video. My company is exploring what data warehousing technology to use in Azure. I needed to learn...
2023-07-19 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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Reading and searching events inside the SQL Server default trace
Note: SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. The replacement technology for them is Extended Events. To Learn More: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sql-trace/sql-trace?view=sql-server-ver16SQL Server...
2023-07-19 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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2023-07-19
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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