Am I working too much?
The other night I was tired, a few long days, early mornings with the kids, and slightly wired, but needing...
2010-02-03
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Blog Posts
DBCC CHECKDB() on ResourceDB?
A few days ago I was answering a forum post about CHECKDB() and as part of the research I checked...
2010-02-03
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Knowing how to use ATTRIB
ATTRIB is one of those commands back from the days of DOS which most folks don't even realize it's there....
2010-02-03
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Questions About SQL Server Backups
SQL Server backups are a “funny” topic to talk about. If you are talking with experienced DBAs, the topic of...
2010-02-03
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SQLSaturday & PASS – More Details
Yesterday I posted the news that SQLSaturday is now owned by PASS, today I’d like to share a bit of...
2010-02-03
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What Would I Do With a Week?
After my editorial this week on Coding By the Sea, my boss actually pinged me to say that I could...
2010-02-03
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“Building a Better Blog” with Steve Jones
I recently watched Steve Jones’ (Blog | Twitter) "Building a better blog" presentation from the 24 hours of PASS virtual conference...
2010-02-02
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Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-02
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Key Discovery III
Recursively traverse system views to build a Hierarchical Perspective into the database.
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PASS Acquires SQLSaturday
I’ll write more about this tomorrow, but for now I’m reposting the release from Rushabh Mehta, President, PASS:
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Blogs
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
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I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
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Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
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