Daily Coping 21 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to respond kindly to everyone you talk to today. This is often easy for me. I did this last week while traveling. I got coffee...
2023-02-21
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Blog Posts
What Happens On AWS RDS?
I was talking with some developers from my team about monitoring, and I said, “We all use the same tools,” referring to other monitoring software. Then, it hit me....
2023-02-21
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Daily Coping 20 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to appreciate the good qualities of someone in your life. We have a person in Redgate that does a lot of work to support our...
2023-02-20
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Deadline for Microsoft MVP contributions is 20 March 2023
Since changing to the new MVP renewal model, Microsoft MVPs have had until 31 March each year to provide the list of their annual contributions. For 2023, the deadline...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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Rotating a Certificate Used by TDE
In terms of encryption, Key Rotation is the process of replacing your encryption keys on a periodic basis. This is considered good practice and is required by many security...
2023-02-20 (first published: 2023-02-06)
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CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-31)
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Daily Coping 17 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to support a local business with a positive online review or friendly message. When I discover a business I like or one that delivers value...
2023-02-17
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Using SQL Data Compare from the Command Line with a Project
SQL Data Compare (SDC) is a great way to sync data among tables. It’s a software utility analogous to SQL Compare, but working with data rather than schema. I...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-25)
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Daily Coping 16 Feb 2023
Today’s coping tip is to focus on being kind rather than being right. This is one of the things that grows my wisdom over time. I don’t need to...
2023-02-16
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Context Info Across Databases–#SQLNewBlogger
Does Context Info work across databases? This post shows it does. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
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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
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Using OPENJSON
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Data Modeling with dbt for Visual Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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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 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