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Big Data: An Introduction with Hive

Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems. Hive provides...

2012-12-27

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Big Data And Hadoop Part 2

In my previous blog I have given more insight on Big Data and now we will take a closer look at Hadoop.

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Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive...

2012-12-24

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Big Data and Hadoop Part 1

Big Data Definition

As per wiki Big Data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly-used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process the data within...

2012-12-14

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Fun with JSON II

I have some data in a table:

CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
    id INT PRIMARY KEY,
    name VARCHAR(100),
    birth_date DATE
);

-- Step 2: Insert rows  
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT t1.[key] AS row,
       t2.*
FROM OPENJSON(
     (
         SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
     )
             ) t1
    CROSS APPLY OPENJSON(t1.value) t2;

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