Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you...
2015-02-18
2,226 reads
SQLStudies
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,763 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security: Rollup
When I decided on security as my topic for February’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party my thought was that security was...
2015-02-12
922 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63: – DBA Myths: You can’t deny something to a member of db_owner database role
So I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and decided that since security is something everyone has to deal with it...
2015-02-19 (first published: 2015-02-10)
7,222 reads
Dealing with layered function calls
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are...
2015-02-16 (first published: 2015-02-05)
6,283 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security?
Come on down! You’re the next contestant on T-SQL Tuesday! I’m your host Kenneth Fisher and this month I’d thought...
2015-02-03
928 reads
A quick email interview of Pass President Thomas LaRock
Back in December I had the thought that it would be fun to do an email interview with someone. As...
2015-02-06 (first published: 2015-01-28)
6,821 reads
SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – February 2014 – KILL with the DAC
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-01-29 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,302 reads
Constraint names, Say NO to the default
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it...
2015-01-21
1,928 reads
Except and Intersect
EXCEPT and INTERSECT are two uncommon commands. Not that they do anything odd but they aren’t exactly well known in...
2015-01-23 (first published: 2015-01-19)
8,582 reads
Blogs
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...
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
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