Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard Edition, a few on the Enterprise Edition, and others handling core work, like the Linux/PostgreSQL...
2026-04-06
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The Voice of the DBA
A Las Vegas Break
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for the Red Rock Rave volleyball tournament with a team of 13 year olds. We’ve been...
2026-04-03
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Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a few people thinking and commenting on their own experiences. I decided to write a few...
2026-04-01
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Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try and answer it myself. I assumed this would be easy, and it was, but I...
2026-04-01 (first published: 2026-03-30)
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The Book of Redgate: No Politics
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this value: In our context, this was about being open and transparent. This is the text...
2026-03-27
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The 2026 Redgate Summit in New York City
We’re coming back to New York, which is exciting for me. I love NYC. The Redgate Summit 2026 – New York City comes back on May 5, 2026. You...
2026-04-03 (first published: 2026-03-25)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert thresholds in Redgate Monitor and decided to write a little about this. This is part...
2026-04-06 (first published: 2026-03-23)
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A New Word: los vidados
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might have forgotten completely if someone hadn’t happened to mention them again – friends of friends,...
2026-03-20
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Finding and Updating Duplicate IDs: #SQLNewBlogger
Finding duplicates was an interview question for me years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it. Recently I got asked how to easily do this and delete them, so I...
2026-04-01 (first published: 2026-03-18)
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Whiling away an afternoon, thinking
I come to Heathrow often. Today is likely somewhere close to 60 trips to this airport in my lifetime. After over 19 years of working with Redgate (plus a...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-17)
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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...
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The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Using OPENJSON
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Data Modeling with dbt for Visual Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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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