A Monumental Migration to SQL Server 2016 - Part 1
A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
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A bit over a year ago, I blogged about my experience migrating a test SQL Server instance from a VM to a physical machine with a little help from...
2019-01-07
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As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...
2019-01-02
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In my previous post, I mentioned that I wasn’t checking the status of my RSJobs because I had logging built into my function. I originally tried to log out...
2018-12-24
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Intro PowerShell has had a native method for spawning multiple “threads” ever since I can remember, in the form of the *-Job functions. They work OK, but there are...
2018-12-17
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Matt (blog | twitter) is preparing for his first SQL Saturday presentation next weekend in Washington, DC. He’s asked:
I wanted to get an idea of some good, bad, and...
2018-11-29
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Last year at PASS Summit 2017, I heard a number of comments related to people not recognizing me without the hat in my social media photo/avatar. The linked post...
2018-11-28
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My album of people and events at Summit 2018. Somehow a number of photo opportunities were missed!
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2018-11-19
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@SQLMonkeyNYC asked on Twitter this morning:
#sqlhelp Does anyone have a product that will back up a single table and restore it to another database? Thanks in advance!!
— The SQL...
2018-11-14
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Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community.
Malathi has asked us to:
Pick one thing you want to learn that...
2018-11-06
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On the eve of this year’s PASS Summit, I find myself reflecting on my first Summit in 2012. My employer was generous enough to pay for not only Summit...
2018-11-04
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By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
By DataOnWheels
I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Hello all, I’m looking for advice on how to derive a daily snapshot table...
We need to replace our Windows server running SQL 2017. Any reason not to...
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