Getting the Most Out of SQL Server Profiler Using Templates
In case you haven’t discovered this for yourself, SQL Server Profiler is one of the most powerful tools that come...
2009-12-07
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Blog Posts
Getting Things Done: The Zone
Cross-Posted from A Goal-Keeping DBA blog:
I'm reading Getting Things Done because of Brent Ozar's excellent blog post, How I Use...
2009-12-07
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Good Programmer = Lazy & Dumb?
Alternative title for programmers using C-derivatives and Java:
Good Programmer == Lazy & Dumb?
I read this blog post, Why Good Programmers Are...
2009-12-07
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LinkedIn Update and LinkedIn Vanity URL’s
Was just doing my more or less weekly update on LinkedIn and saw that – finally – just hit 500 connections. Growth...
2009-12-07
554 reads
List of 50 Interesting Web Sites from Time Magazine
Ran across the Time Top 50 web site list and thought I’d share. I’m fond of lists, especially about web...
2009-12-07
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MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 4
This is part four in the series of blog posts that will help in building a library of calculations you...
2009-12-07
2,810 reads
Microsoft Student Career Portal
Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...
2009-12-07
1,453 reads
PCI Encryption
It surprises me how often I see people posting questions about what type of encryption to implement for credit card...
2009-12-07
778 reads
Traveling and Airtran
I am a pretty frequent traveler, as you would imagine. Running a consulting company, and being on it's principals assets...
2009-12-07
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements for December 2009
Next week, I have the honor of presenting two different sessions on SSIS. These 2 events are the last speaking...
2009-12-07
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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