SQL Rally–1 week out
It’s hard to believe that after all the hard work, planning, and prep, that SQL Rally Dallas is just a...
2012-05-03
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Blog Posts
Win a Free SQLRally Admission!
As those of you in our local North Texas SQL Server User Group are aware, we have given away one...
2012-05-03
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Building an Intel Ivy Bridge Desktop System, Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote about buying some of the components that I needed to build a new 22nm...
2012-05-02
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 6: Making the Decision
We’ve completed reviewing the major Microsoft tools and now you have to make “The Decision”. Which tool(s) is the best...
2012-05-02
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Denali – Day 2: AlwaysON High Availability (aka Project HADRON)
Denali – Day 2: AlwaysON High Availability (aka Project HADRON )
AlwaysON Availability Group:
is another very important achievement done by development team project...
2012-05-02
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Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server 2012
I have previously blogged about Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server Reference...
2012-05-02
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Identity Crisis
I’m sure most people have identity values lurking somewhere in their databases. In fact I would guess that most people...
2012-05-02 (first published: 2012-04-25)
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One Week from SQLRally!
SQLRally is a week away (pre-cons start on Tuesday, conference starts on Thursday). I have the privilege of two sessions to...
2012-05-02
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Presenting at SQL Saturday 119 Chicago!
First thing in the morning Saturday May 19th:
I will be presenting with my colleague from House of Brick David Klee...
2012-05-02
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SQL Server Indexed Views Explained
Indexed views are a really powerful and possibly underused feature of SQL Server. It’s basically a way of writing a...
2012-05-02
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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