How Often Do I Backup my Log?
Do you know how often to back up your SQL Server transaction log? Steve Jones has a few thoughts today and notes that you definitely need to know how to restore the log backups.
2014-02-12
549 reads
Editorial
The Data Platform Vision
Microsoft published a vision for their data platform and SQL Server recently. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on what this means for you. Hint: it's cloudy.
2014-02-11
135 reads
Performance Tuning Through Panic
We've all been there, trying to improve performance in a panic situation and not making things better.
2014-02-10
390 reads
Top Talent Leaves
Why do employees leave their companies? There are a variety of reasons, but when your most talented people leave, that's a concern. Steve Jones comments on what we might do about this.
2017-10-19 (first published: 2014-02-10)
396 reads
Oddball Interview Questions
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. He talks about strange questions in interviews and whether they help you assess the candidate.
2014-02-07
389 reads
The Cloud
Steve Jones likes the Cloud and gives a few reasons why. He also thinks we'll see more data in the cloud over time.
2014-02-06
196 reads
2014-02-05
665 reads
Zombie Data
Old data can come back to haunt you. Steve Jones talks about potential problems when data comes back to life.
2014-02-04
167 reads
Big Data Comes to Hiring
Big Data is being used to analyze more and more data to produce better decisions. However that doesn't always work as people might expect. Steve Jones talks about some of the issues with using Big Data in hiring.
2014-02-03
179 reads
Adding to SQL Server
This week Steve Jones wonders what you might want to add to SQL Server. With SQL Server 2016 likely in the early planning stages, where would you want to see the development effort focused.
2014-01-31
241 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
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Azure Synapse database refresh
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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