The BI World
It's been an interestng week here at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle and a first for me happened this...
2007-05-11
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Blog Posts
No Excuse
I know writing and working on SQL Server is hard. It's a huge project and just managing that is hard....
2007-05-04
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight
Our next
meeting will be on Thursday, May
3rd, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our
gracious host....
2007-05-03
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MCITP
Despite being without power for a few days, a hectic scramble at work to get things done, and kids off...
2007-05-01
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Powered Down
We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...
2007-04-25
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Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability
One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...
2007-04-23
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Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...
2007-04-16
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Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...
2007-04-15
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Not 4GB
Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.
I saw...
2007-04-13
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Post SP2 Fixes
I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.
They do a good job explaining...
2007-04-13
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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