Shipping
I've got a conference to attend in a few weeks, and needed to get some things out the door. Every...
2009-10-16
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #21 Shirt Snafu!
Thought I’d share a funny story. Way back before SQLSaturday #1 my friend Shawn recommended a local shirt/embroidery vendor, I...
2009-10-16
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Table Variable and Temp Table
Today I come across the great blog by Wayne Sheffield on Sqlservercentral.com about temp table and table variable so I...
2009-10-16
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Vetting the PASS Board of Directors candidates
I've had a pretty heavy involvement in Brent Ozar's interview of Matt Morollo. The reason for my intense activity is he was...
2009-10-16
1,360 reads
A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance
1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.
Microsoft's...
2009-10-15
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Are you sticking to your goals? Do you know what they are?
I've engaged a little in the discussion on Matt Morollo's interview on Brent Ozar's blog. It made me go back...
2009-10-15
1,187 reads
Book Review: The Deceived
The Deceived by Brett Battles
I haven’t post on any fiction lately, thought it was time to write about something more...
2009-10-15
346 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement
Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...
2009-10-15
614 reads
Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Non-Managers
In my last post I talked about how I think managers should approach off-hours work with their teams. It's a...
2009-10-15
526 reads
Separating Out Indexes
I saw a post recently where someone was asking how to separate out all indexes from the data into a...
2009-10-15
907 reads
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
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
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