Remote Work Resources
We’re at least five weeks into this thing here in New York and while there are some encouraging signs, it’s more likely than not that “non-essential” workers aren’t at...
2020-04-21
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FLX SQL
SQL Saturday Organizer Q&A
A little while ago, Ray Kim (blog | twitter) asked a few folks who organize SQL Saturday events a few questions for his blog. The results are in and...
2020-04-09
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COVID-19 - Work & Life Changes, How We're Coping
Settle in folks, this is a long, rambling post.
As this goes live, it’s been about three weeks since my abrupt switch from driving to the office every day to...
2020-04-06
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User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
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User Defined Types and Temp Tables Gotcha
This tripped me up a few weeks ago, but once I stopped and thought about for a moment it made total sense. I was trying to copy some data...
2020-04-02
7 reads
Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL...
2020-03-17
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Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server.
Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL Server...
2020-03-17
6 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #124 – I’m a Query Store Newbie
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month Tracy Boggiano (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about Query...
2020-03-11
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T-SQL Tuesday #124 - I'm a Query Store Newbie
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month Tracy Boggiano (blog | twitter) asks us to talk about Query...
2020-03-11
2 reads
Modernizing Your T-SQL: The Sequence Object
This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL...
2020-03-10
31 reads
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