The Scientific Method: a call to action
Gail Shaw issues a rallying call for the SQL Community to adopt the Scientific Method when investigating and reporting on SQL Server behavior.
2019-09-09 (first published: 2015-05-25)
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Editorial
Native Audits
This week Steve Jones asks if you're using the SQL Audit feature built into SQL Server.
2015-05-22
147 reads
Naming Confusion
The naming of systems and other technological constructs is always a debate within groups. Steve Jones points out a few places where this might actually prevent mistakes.
2015-05-21
137 reads
Controlling Alerts
Being on call is not much fun for anyone, but it can certainly be hard on those that receive lots of calls for systemic issues. Are there better ways to manage this?
2015-05-20
136 reads
2019-06-14 (first published: 2015-05-19)
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Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
2015-05-18
79 reads
Boring or Scripting
There is no shortage of mundane tasks at work. Steve Jones notes that you might not want to depend on those to fill your day in the future.
2024-11-20 (first published: 2015-05-18)
446 reads
Documenting with Tests
The idea of using more unit tests to improve code quality has been around for some time. However Steve Jones notes today that some people use tests for documentation.
2019-10-04 (first published: 2015-05-14)
277 reads
2015-05-13
834 reads
Opening Up Data
Tim O'Reilly, head of O'Reilly publishing, has been an advocate of better date movement in the world. Steve Jones has a few comments on an interview he gave earlier this year.
2015-05-12
100 reads
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