SQL Server STUFF
The STUFF function in SQL Server is one of those little gems that is very under-used but when needed can be a real handy utility – at least that’s...
2022-01-10
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measure twice, cut once.
More Times Like These with SQL Server
I blogged the other about have some issues translating Oracle date formats to SQL Server date data types I find the way SQL Server handles dates with a defined...
2021-12-06
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Times Like These with SQL Server
I was doing some conversion of Oracle code (PL/SQL) to SQL Server code (T-SQL) – which had some quirks. I just thought that I’d share a quick tip that...
2021-12-02
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What exactly is a modern data warehouse?
G’day, I was asked recently what a modern data warehouse is – and that’s a vey thought provoking question. First, there’s the tag “Modern” – I think what’s modern...
2020-12-14
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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY
OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY
OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-09
20 reads
OPENJSON and an Alias
Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
291 reads
OPENJSON and an Alias
Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
16 reads
OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART II
We’ve looked at getting pulling data from a JSON document into relational table format using an explicit schema that was defined in the WITH clause of the OPENJSON table...
2020-06-07
29 reads
OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART II
We’ve looked at getting pulling data from a JSON document into relational table format using an explicit schema that was defined in the WITH clause of the OPENJSON table...
2020-06-07
10 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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Hyperscale Replicas I
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