Sometimes, work tasks and questions that come up in the SQL Server Community Slack coincide.
A couple weeks ago, DrData asked
With SET STATISTICS IO ON, is there really no way...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-22)
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First Things First Thanks to every who came to my session, Asnwering the Auditor’s Call with Automation. Slides and scripts are posted to my Github.
The Event! This was Syracuse’s...
2024-09-08
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the first-ever SQL Saturday Syracuse on September 7th, 2024. I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
2024-08-14
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Mala Mahadevan
(blog) asks how we manage our database-related code.
Where do you keep...
2024-08-12
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The Problem While performing an instance migration this spring, I happened upon something I didn’t expect in [dbatools](https://dbatools.io/). It should have been a simple backup/restore copy of the databases,...
2024-08-16 (first published: 2024-08-06)
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Earlier this year, I embarked on a bit of a project to tidy up the indexes in a sizeable database. This database has over 900 tables, and there are...
2024-08-12 (first published: 2024-07-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Kevin Feasel
(blog | twitter) asks us about job interview questions.
What is your...
2024-05-13
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I will be presenting Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation at two upcoming events, one virtual and one in-person.
DBA Fundamentals Virtual User Group Tuesday, April 9 2024 at Noon...
2024-04-03 (first published: 2024-03-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. I missed out on January 2024’s edition because I didn’t think I had anything...
2024-02-28 (first published: 2024-02-20)
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The holidays have passed and it’s a new year. You probably have a gift card or two and haven’t decided how to use it yet. Allow me to help:
Buy...
2024-01-30
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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...
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
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