Who’s Responsible
This is really scary. Someone being sued for downloading a porn movie illegally. I have nothing against porn, and I...
2012-08-03
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Blog Posts
Auto Shrink of all T-Log File on a SQL Instance - TSQL
This Script will shrink all the T-Log files of SQL instance if there is no active tracsaction on the database. The...
2012-08-02
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Creating and Managing User-Defined Roles in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 introduces user-defined server roles. These user-defined server roles are similar to fixed server roles with only difference...
2012-08-02
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Notes to a DBA who wishes to know more
I just sent this off to a fellow DBA who wanted some resources. You may also be one of those,...
2012-08-02
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Performing Unattended Installs of SQL Server 2012
In my post here, I’ve discussed the procedure to perform attended installation of SQL Server 2012 on a Windows Server...
2012-08-02
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Quebec Human Rights Commission Ignores Racism Documented by CRT Judge (Civil Evidence), Ignores E-mail Evidence & Botches Up Investigation
After seeking justice in this matter for years, I am obliged to bring this issue up again (since it affects...
2012-08-02
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Reading Excel into SSIS via OpenXML Scripting
Reading Excel data isn't easy. It should be, but there's a lot of unfortunate barriers in the way that I've...
2012-08-02 (first published: 2012-07-31)
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Replace NOT IN with JOIN
Example of how to replace NOT IN clause with JOIN
/*NOT IN query*/
USEAdventureWorks;GOSELECTProductIDFROMProduction.ProductWHEREProductIDNOTIN(SELECTProductIDFROMProduction.WorkOrder);
/*JOIN Query*/:-
SELECTp.ProductIDFROMProduction.ProductpLEFTJOINProduction.WorkOrderwONp.ProductID=w.ProductIDWHEREw.ProductIDISNULL;
2012-08-02
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SQL database Incremental Shrink TSQL
When we shrink a SQL database through GUI we usually find the database never releases all the free space, It...
2012-08-02
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SQL security scripting - TSQL
SQL DBA often needs to script SQL Logins,Server roles,database users and Roles. Although its easy to script login,roles and users with...
2012-08-02
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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?
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