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Tracking CPU Use Over Time

A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...

2019-12-16 (first published: )

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Your First Jupyter Notebook

In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...

2019-11-28 (first published: )

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Docker, Git and DBATools

For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...

2019-11-20 (first published: )

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You Are A Coder

So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...

2019-11-04

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Well Trained Staff

I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...

2019-10-28

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AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention

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Azure Synapse database refresh

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Question of the Day

Fun with JSON I

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 *
FROM OPENJSON(
     (
         SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
     )
             ) t;

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