Upgraded SSD
I was going to call this an upgraded HDD, but that’s not right. Technically it’s a drive update, but really...
2015-01-19
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Blog Posts
Attending and Speaking at SQLBits XIV
The SQLBits conference has a special place in my heart – as I have written before, the previous edition of SQLBits...
2015-01-18
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Hangout with Boris Hristov
A couple of days ago I had the great pleasure to join Boris Hristov in one of his awesome SQL...
2015-01-17
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Building Rollback Scripts with SQL Compare
There’s a neat switch in SQL Compare that lets you build rollback scripts. It looks like this:
I’ve used this before...
2015-01-16 (first published: 2015-01-07)
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Dev Tools: FARR2 Launching groups of files or apps at once
There are probably a common number of apps you pull up when you pull up your system. For example, I...
2015-01-16
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Dev Tools: FARR2 Launching groups of files or apps at once
There are probably a common number of apps you pull up when you pull up your system. For example, I...
2015-01-16
198 reads
Two Weeks on the PASS Board
The one absolute promise I made about serving on the PASS Board is that I would let you know what...
2015-01-16
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Why does SqlPackage keep dropping and recreating constraints?
I sometimes see this when deploying via sqlpackager.exe:
Analyzing deployment plan (Complete) Updating database (Start) Dropping DF_XXX... Creating DF_XXX... Update complete. Updating database (Complete) Successfully published database.
This happens everytime...
2015-01-16
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Why does SqlPackage keep dropping and recreating constraints?
I sometimes see this when deploying via sqlpackager.exe:
Analyzing deployment plan (Complete) Updating database (Start) Dropping DF_XXX... Creating DF_XXX... Update complete....
2015-01-16
52 reads
Why does SqlPackage keep dropping and recreating constraints?
I sometimes see this when deploying via sqlpackager.exe:
Analyzing deployment plan (Complete) Updating database (Start) Dropping DF_XXX... Creating DF_XXX... Update complete....
2015-01-16
165 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
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...
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