The Surface Meta-App
Just a quick little blog post about one more app you’re going to want to track down for your Surface....
2012-12-12
956 reads
The Scary DBA
Microsoft Surface: Top Apps… So Far
After living with the Surface for a month and trying hard to make it work as a tool for production,...
2012-12-06
1,756 reads
Experimenting with Social Media
After multiple talks with Jason Strate (blog|twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog|twitter) about how they are working on automating more of...
2012-12-05
1,133 reads
HDInsight, Finally
See this:
That’s right. The install worked. All I had to do was get a completely clean server set up. No...
2012-12-03
1,381 reads
Sharing the Love
Just a few blog posts that you ought to go and read.
First up, Tom LaRock maintains a listing of SQL...
2012-11-30
1,684 reads
HDInsight: Trying again
And I thought this would be so easy.
Latest attempt. I just did an uninstall of HDInsight. Then I found all...
2012-11-29
1,928 reads
HDInsight: First Pass
I installed HDInsight with no errors. The install is so brain-dead, I couldn’t see how there could be errors. But,...
2012-11-28
892 reads
Treat Yourself to Knowledge
There’s a one day sale going on at Apress today, 11/26/12. All their eBooks are $15. This means you can...
2012-11-26
1,107 reads
Final 2012 Learning Opportunity
There’s still a little time left in the year. I know some businesses have allocated training budgets and if they...
2012-11-21
1,111 reads
Living with the Surface, Maybe
No major updates at the moment. I still haven’t played with remoting through PowerShell. I’m just living with it.
Had an...
2012-11-19
993 reads
Blogs
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
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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