The Job Outlook for 2008
What will happen in the job market for DBAs this year? Steve Jones gives a few opinions based on what is happening in the industry.
2008-01-02
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Editorial
Building a Better Career
It's important that you manage your career and not just leave it to chance. Steve Jones talks about what you might do to ensure that you'll be successful in the IT world.
2007-12-31
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2007-12-28
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Not So Anonymous
How anonymous are your ratings and other opinions on the Internet? Not as much as you might think.
2007-12-27
204 reads
The December Energy Update
Steve Jones takes a look at what's happening in the world of alternative energy, including cleaner nuclear power and energy from motion.
2007-12-26
58 reads
Compliance
Complying with software licensing is something you should do, but how far should companies take this?
2007-12-24
140 reads
When You're Out of the Office
What would you recommend for the holidays next week when the office is closed.
2007-12-21
110 reads
2007-12-20
1,903 reads
Obfuscation
Test data is critical to being sure your application works, but is production data ok to use in test environments?
2007-12-19
518 reads
Data Ownership
Who owns the data that we generate ourselves? It's not as easy to answer that as you think.
2007-12-18
54 reads
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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