Best of PASS Summit 2014
I am very proud to announce that one of my PASS Summit 2014 sessions was selected as one of the Top 10...
2015-04-13 (first published: 2015-04-03)
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Technobabble by Klee from @kleegeek
Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...
2015-04-09 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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Selected as a PernixPro
Today I’d like to announce that I have been selected as a PernixPro for 2015! It’s a program similar to...
2015-03-23
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New SQL Server Blog Author Challenge
My good friend Ed Leighton-Dick has created a great new challenge, adapted from a challenge issued by Seth Godin back...
2015-03-23
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SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins – SQL Saturday Madison Precon
I am pleased to announce a brand new pre-conference training session, entitled “SQL Server Virtualization for VM Admins“, to be...
2015-03-13
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Keep VM snapshot growth from wrecking your day
VM snapshots are one of the best virtualization features ever. But…have you ever had a VMware vSphere or Hyper-V snapshot...
2015-03-16 (first published: 2015-03-09)
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Presenting with Tegile at Lincoln SQL Server Users Group Thursday
This Thursday I will be joining an open discussion with Tegile Systems and the Lincoln SQL Server Users Group on...
2015-03-04
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Presenting for Omaha SQL Server Users Group Wednesday
I am pleased to be presenting a highly interactive session tomorrow evening that is a full end-to-end setup and management...
2015-03-03
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Book Review: Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware
It’s not often that you’ll see me write a lengthy book review. Most book reviews are fluff telling you to...
2015-02-23
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SQL Cruise Caribbean 2015 Wrap Up
I just returned home from this year’s SQL Cruise in the Caribbean. WOW!
This trip was our first SQL Cruise, but it...
2015-02-19
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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