Always Canary
One way to make deployments smoother is to use a second system, but that's a challenge for databases, as Steve Jones notes.
2018-07-24 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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Editorial
The Value of Code
What's the value of code to your organization? Steve Jones thinks it's much larger than many people believe.
2014-12-02
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Facebooking Up to Your Social Responsibilities
Phil Factor argues that as terrorists and criminals exploit the new opportunities that open up as technology develops, technologists must work with Governments to ensure thoughtful custodianship of data, and sensitivity towards legitimate privacy.
2014-12-01
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Your Best Work
Interviewing people is hard to do well. Steve Jones talks about a technique that might help you better choose good employees for your organization.
2014-12-01
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How Often Does Production Drift?
Database drift is the difference between two database schemas. Today Steve Jones discusses the concept and wonders how often it happens.
2014-11-24
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2014-11-24
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Real World T-SQL Tricks
This week Steve Jones wonders if you're taking advantage of the changes in the T-SQL language.
2014-11-21
717 reads
Achievement Unlocked: Balance 0
Steve Jones completed a task this year that he's rarely completed in the past.
2014-11-20
115 reads
The SQL Server Container
There's an interesting idea that exists for lightweight, application separation on a host that's different from virtualization. It's Docker, and Steve Jones talks about it today.
2014-11-19
263 reads
MY Data
As we gather more and more data about individuals, not only does security become an issue, but also the morality of using the data.
2019-01-08 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
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...
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