SQL Saturday in Olympia , WA Pulls in Crowd of over 130 DBAs and Developers
A SQL Saturday event was held Saturday, October 11, 2008 in Olympia, WA. Sponsored by the Olympia Area SQL Server...
2008-10-11
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Blog Posts
Database Health - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-10
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One File Per Core?
For a long time in my career I heard various advice on how many files you should create for a...
2008-10-10
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Do You Understand Microsoft Licenses?
I had an email from a friend recently asking about a licensing question pertaining to Microsoft. It reminded me of...
2008-10-09
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Meeting My Goal
Last year I was talking about goals and changes for the site as I was negotiating my continued employment with...
2008-10-09
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Project Management Management - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-09
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Tulsa TechFest Draws a Crowd of Over 500
The annual Tulsa TechFest (Tulsa, OK) had over 500 attendees today (Thursday), and is expecting another 500+ attendees on Friday....
2008-10-09
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Validating text data. A few techniques.
/*datafile used in the SQL */
DECLARE @String VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @String = 'When you are starting out to validate text input, perhaps to clean...
2008-10-09
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Red Gate SQL Response Review is up
Full Disclosure: I did receive a trial version of the software and payment for the review. I am also a...
2008-10-08
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Take the Plunge - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-08
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
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...
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