Seatguru - Getting a Good Seat on the Plane
Ran across this a while back and just getting to it, Seatguru is a site that lets you figure out...
2009-06-03
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Blog Posts
Speaking at SQLSaturday #14 in Pensacola on June 6, 2009
I'm driving over tonight to spend a long weekend in Pensacola (6-7 hour drive from Orlando) for their first SQLSaturday,...
2009-06-03
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SQLServerCentral Article on Backup Monitoring and Reporting
The article, Backup Monitoring and Reporting, demonstrates a SQL Server backup reporting solution I use in my production environment. Some highlights of...
2009-06-03
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TRY/CATCH - The Great Way to Handle Exceptions in SQL 2005/8
This is based on the original post in Franglais.
The goal of this post is to explain how to handle errors...
2009-06-03
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Balancing Priorities
This one isn't a technical post, but it's entirely appropriate to those of us in the IT field. Today was a...
2009-06-02
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Other Desktops
The USB not in Hyper-V thing is annoying. It actually made me stop and consider my alternatives for a desktop....
2009-06-02
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Notes on SQLSaturday #7
I flew up to Birmingham Friday for SQLSaturday #7 organized by John Baldwin from Steel City SQL and a lot...
2009-06-01
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Reminder - SQLSaturday #12 in Portland is June 6, 2009
Ken Starnes from the Portland group will be having their first event on June 6th. I like the way they've...
2009-06-01
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Security Basics: Understanding the Surface Area
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area...
2009-06-01
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SQL Server Encryption - Hashing Collisions
A hash is a computation that transforms one set of data into another (hopefully smaller) set of data. So a...
2009-06-01
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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