And Bad Writing
I haven't had time to research the extent, but someone reported plagiarism and the author admitted the code, while "from...
2006-02-06
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Blog Posts
Good Writing
I left at lunch to hit the gym and then meet a friend. Afterwards I stopped by Starbucks to do...
2006-02-03
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Responsibility
This is very interesting.
I've often thought that blogs were a great source of information, but it is more unvetted than...
2006-02-03
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Upgrading your databases link
I got the link from Kirk about the couse: http://www.maxtrain.com/classes/classInfo.aspx?id=SQLADV .
2006-02-02
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Upgrading your databases to SQL Server 2005 class
I attended a two day class this week that was fantastic. It was taught by the author of the course material,...
2006-02-01
1,291 reads
Teaching 3rd Graders binary numbers?!?
This is just neat. I saw the link in a post on Tess Ferrandez's blog.
She's an escalation engineer with Microsoft...
2006-01-27
1,521 reads
Forums for Atadore's PromptSQL
Atadore has opened up forums for support and feature requests of its
PromptSQL tool. You can find them on the PromptSQL...
2006-01-26
1,357 reads
The Greatest Trick
In reading Gianpaolo Carraro's blog I came across this entry: The architect greatest trick?!
In it he's talking about having seen...
2006-01-26
1,544 reads
Pro SSIS is Here!
My box of books arrived today! For me, a first-time author (actually co-author), this is very surreal. I remember it was...
2006-01-25
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Slightly Connected
Sometimes those connection problems come in the most interesting ways.
I took a few minutes over lunch today to try...
2006-01-24
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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