Log Your Changes
How can you maintain a stable environment? Keeping track of all changes is the time-tested and proven technique. Read about it here.
2001-04-30
5,433 reads
Administration
Restoring the Master Database
This article shows you in a step-by-step manner how to restore the master database.
2001-04-29
8,964 reads
Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 8
The eighth part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
2001-04-29
6,701 reads
Keeping Your Developers Under Control
Everyone needs a stable environment. This article discussed ways to keep your team on the same page.
2001-04-25
5,817 reads
Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 6
The sixth part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
2001-04-25
5,678 reads
Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 5
The fifth part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
2001-04-24
6,997 reads
Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 4
The fourth part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
2001-04-22
5,952 reads
Quickly Disconnect Users
Nothing is more annoying than having to disconnect users one by one. With this script, you will be able to quickly disconnect them with a few keystrokes.
2001-04-21
18,223 reads
Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 3
The third part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
2001-04-20
11,275 reads
Process Tracking
It is not always possible to run a process on a set schedule. This article by Steve Jones looks at a technique for ensuring that your processes can run on whenever you need them to without any loss of data.
2001-04-18
5,349 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
Forums
Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
how to write this query?
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
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