Challenge Accepted
There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:
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2014-07-23
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The Scary DBA
Victims of Success
I took part in the PASS Summit 2014 selection committee this year because I was really curious about seeing how...
2014-07-21
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Execution Plan Details
I wouldn’t say it’s common knowledge that you should look at execution plans when tuning queries, but it’s not exactly...
2014-07-17 (first published: 2014-07-15)
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Speaker of the Month, July 2014
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2014-07-11
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Worst Day of a DBAs Life
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2014-07-08
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Reflections on the 2014 PASS Summit Selection Process
Oh we are a bunch of high school kids at heart. Maybe high school never ends (and there’s a nightmare,...
2014-07-03
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Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures
Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...
2014-07-03 (first published: 2014-07-02)
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The Curse of Working With A DBA
I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...
2014-06-30
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Passion
I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...
2014-06-26
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The Utility of Execution Plans in Natively Compiled Procedures
I’m actually having problems identifying the utility of execution plans when working with natively compiled procedures. Or, put another way,...
2014-06-30 (first published: 2014-06-25)
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Blogs
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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; See possible answers