SANS Stay Sharp Course - SEC351: Computer and Network Security Awareness
A few years ago I took the SANS GIAC Security Essentials Course on-line. Included in it was an attempt at...
2006-06-21
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Blog Posts
Be on the lookout for the mistakes of others
I've come to learn that there are some really flaky systems out there. Not just a few quirks here and...
2006-06-15
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Whitepaper: SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
Microsoft has released a whitepaper on SQL Server 2005 Physical Database Storage Design
(Microsoft Word document). It's 35 pages in length...
2006-06-15
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Distributing Database Connection Strings Using Active Directory Group Policy
I ran into Brian Knight today on the Expo floor here at TechEd.
It was good to catch up a bit...
2006-06-13
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TechEd - DATTLC01 : Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005
It's
been a few years since I wrote my eBook on SQL Server performance monitoring
but I still keep a strong interest...
2006-06-12
1,581 reads
In Boston for TechEd
This will be my first ever TechEd and I'm looking forward to it. I was able to go to the...
2006-06-11
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Training Center
We kind of opened the training center today. The pages are up, Google's charging us for their nice AdWords, and...
2006-06-09
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Two things I wish they'd change about endpoints in SQL Server 2005
I've
been playing around with endpoints in SQL Server 2005 looking at how they can
be used to enhance security for SQL...
2006-05-27
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When It Takes Time...
Saw this from Jason Haley's Interesting Finds post for the morning of May 25, 2006:
Project Managing Latency or: How to...
2006-05-25
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Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part II
In a previous post, Disaster Recovery and SQL Server, Part I,
I pointed to the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article which...
2006-05-24
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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