Attaching All Databases with PowerShell–Finding My MDF Files
I wrote a PowerShell script recently to actually accomplish a task I that I needed. What’s more, this was the...
2014-05-26
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Blog Posts
Database Backup Encryption with SQL Server 2014
A brand new & long awaited feature “Backup Encryption” along with SQL Server 2014. Microsoft reveled this upcoming feature in PASS...
2014-05-26 (first published: 2014-05-19)
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Dealing with SQL Server LOCK resource errors.
I was recently doing some testing that required a fairly large table. I created the test table, and set it...
2014-05-26
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How Database Mail works in SQL Server ?
Database Mail is email feature in SQL Server from SQL Server 2005 onwards. This feature used for mailing alerts, notification,...
2014-05-26
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It’s Time to End Password Reuse
Last week Ebay announced that some accounts were compromised, including passwords with as yet unstated encryption. Those who aren’t tech...
2014-05-26
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Languages of Big Data Apache Hadoop
Languages of Big Data
Big Data is here and rapidly growing. If you are just starting to learn about Big Data...
2014-05-26
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #85
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-05-26
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Microsoft’s free virtual labs
If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...
2014-05-26
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NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 2
This is the second blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL.
If you are interested,...
2014-05-26
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2014-05-26
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Blogs
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...
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
Forums
Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
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Azure Synapse database refresh
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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