Goals – The end of one year, start of another
Just about a year ago, I talked about the importance of setting goals for yourself, both personally and professionally, making...
2012-06-25
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Blog Posts
How to use a multidimensional cube with Power View
The requirements for Power View state that it can only use tabular models as data sources. So if you want to...
2012-06-25
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I’m speaking at the PASS Summit 2012
The PASS Summit 2012 schedule has been released, and I’m proud to announce that I’ve been selected to present a...
2012-06-25
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It’s that time of year…..Exceptional DBA Awards 2012
Being a 2011 finalist I felt I should try and rally all those who truly are exceptional to get their...
2012-06-25
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Join me at the PASS Summit
It seems just yesterday that we were all in Seattle together, getting a crash course in what’s new and exciting...
2012-06-25
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Join me at the PASS Summit
It seems just yesterday that we were all in Seattle together, getting a crash course in what’s new and exciting...
2012-06-25
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JSON and the NoSQL “advantage” over SQL Server
First what is JSON?
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation.
JSON is syntax for storing and exchanging text information, similar to XML.
JSON is smaller...
2012-06-25 (first published: 2012-06-14)
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Killing me softly with Service Broker…
A few days ago, I found a very interesting behavior regarding Service Broker on a
customer system. The main thing is...
2012-06-25
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Maintenance Plan Owner
We all inherit things from time to time through our profession. Sometimes we inherit some good things, sometimes we inherit some things that are not so good. Other times...
2012-06-25
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
It’s about that time again, PASS Summit 2012 is right around the corner in Seattle, WA. It will be held...
2012-06-25
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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