SQL Rally 2011 Recap
As I write this, I’m somewhere in the air over Florida, headed back home to Dallas from participating in the...
2011-05-21
1,112 reads
Blog Posts
Busy is as Busy Does
I am, as they say, one busy little bee.
I just got back from SQLRally last week (here are my SQLRally...
2011-05-20
555 reads
Managing Data Change
Often DBAs receive requests to manually manipulate production data. Ideally, all data changes should be performed through the appropriate application...
2011-05-20
1,877 reads
MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go
Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year. Well, ok not full blown plans , but you get the gist. I announced that I would...
2011-05-20
9 reads
MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go
Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year. Well, ok not full blown plans , but you...
2011-05-20
711 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
AdvertisementsMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 10.50.2418.0 CTP is available now. You may download and test it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=15dcfec2-abb8-409d-91ff-c7c8e18c8409
2011-05-20
1,057 reads
Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011
I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...
2011-05-20
787 reads
Quickly Find Your DDL Triggers with PowerShell
As a consultant I spend much of the first day or two at a client site discovering everything I can...
2011-05-20
1,313 reads
Re-blog – May 13-19
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Oddly enough,...
2011-05-20
433 reads
Replicating XML Columns
One caveat that’s worth mentioning is replicating the XML data type in
SQL Server using Merge Replication. Sometimes, when replicating...
2011-05-20
1,409 reads
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