SQL Server – Purging Database Mail History
SQL Server stores all mails and attachments in msdb database. To avoid unnecessary growth of msdb database you should remove...
2012-05-10
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Blog Posts
SQLRally 2012–Wednesday
Had a nice lunch at On The Border at Orlando International before my flight, used that time to finish some...
2012-05-10
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SQLSaturday #129 - City of Rochester, NY
Long before it was announced that coming August 4, 2012, SQLSaturday #158 returns to the NYC (<< see recent announcement, New York...
2012-05-10
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The Difference Between Change Tracking and Change Data Capture
Change Tracking (CT) and Change Data Capture (CDC) were both added to SQL Server in 2008. At first it seems...
2012-05-10
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Working with bitwise data in SQL Server
I was working with a group of students on a design brief. The brief was to partially implement a database...
2012-05-10
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Backup database in CMS
Sometime you know the database name which you want to backup, but you don't know which server it is on....
2012-05-09
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Denali — Day 9: Additional Scalability Features
Denali – Day 9: Additional Scalability Features
15,000 Partitions earlier it was 1000For the enterprise system having huge amount of data to...
2012-05-09
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DQS Domain Validation Rules
A compelling feature of the new Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 is the ability to apply rules to...
2012-05-09 (first published: 2012-05-04)
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Thank You to the People That Get Us There
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Hello Dear Reader starting today out in Dallas Texas at the Dallas Convention Center is the Second Annual SQL Rally. ...
2012-05-09
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Top 20 Reasons Why Bill 101 Is a Nuisance to Modern Quebec Society: Greatest Hits of the Tyranny of Bill 101
Quebec's Shameful, Coercive Language Law‘Je me souviens’ les palmarès Top 20 de la loi 101 sacrée qui nuit à la...
2012-05-09
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Blogs
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
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...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Daily aggregation of Azure Blob Storage by tier (created/tier-change/deleted)
Hello all, I’m looking for advice on how to derive a daily snapshot table...
SQL 2017 to SQL 2025. Good to Go ?
We need to replace our Windows server running SQL 2017. Any reason not to...
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