I Am Not In Charge
That is for sure.
We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading...
2007-09-26
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Blog Posts
Development at High Speed
As with any project, despite being fairly pleased with the final product, there were bugs. In fact, quite a few...
2007-09-25
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DTS vs Linked Server
We are trying to move to version 2 of our accounting data warehouse (more likely called a datamart), but it...
2007-09-25
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Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...
2007-09-25
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Writing in my sleep
When I first got into IT full time 10 years ago, I noticed that my mind was constantly solving programming...
2007-09-25
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Building a Local User Group
I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While...
2007-09-24
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More & Better News about the PASS Summit from Edgewood
I try not to just post links to other content, but the guys at Edgewood did a pretty good job...
2007-09-23
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PASS and new SSC design
I'm rarely a "needy" guy, but I have to admit that I'm feeling a little left out. Due to project...
2007-09-23
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PASS Report
Somehow between the sessions, networking and socializing I never found time to post anything last week. So, I'm going to...
2007-09-23
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PASS Report Part 2
This was my 5th year at PASS and every year I enjoy catching up with old friends and meeting many...
2007-09-23
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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