The Window Is Shrinking
Today Steve talks about security and the fact that your window for lax security is shrinking for new applications.
2011-08-09
134 reads
Editorial
Hardware Hacking
Steve Jones examines one of the issues of foreign chip production: security. Will this be an attack vector in the future?
2011-08-08
146 reads
What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend
Brad's noticed that there are fewer good books about SQL Server on the shelves, and asks which books you'd recommend to people who are new to SQL Server
2011-08-08
395 reads
2011-08-05
309 reads
The Woes of Cloud Computing
Steve Jones talks about the problems you might face when moving to cloud computing and the fact that you ought to be prepared to move at some point.
2011-08-04
162 reads
It’s Good to Eat Alone
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the choice of eating with someone else, or alone and the benefits of each.
2011-08-03
207 reads
Jobs for Data Scientists
Steve Jones talks about data science and the growing number of jobs that are available in this field.
2011-08-02
168 reads
The Impact of Outages
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
2011-08-01
78 reads
A Cast of Thousands
In a guest editorial, Rodney Landrum offers a light-hearted guide to role of each member of the cast in a typical SQL code deployment.
2011-08-01
140 reads
Geeky Distractions
This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
2011-07-29
143 reads
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...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Daily aggregation of Azure Blob Storage by tier (created/tier-change/deleted)
Hello all, I’m looking for advice on how to derive a daily snapshot table...
SQL 2017 to SQL 2025. Good to Go ?
We need to replace our Windows server running SQL 2017. Any reason not to...
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