2016-10-14
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Editorial
Conflict in Functional Teams
Today we have a guest editorial from Alice Smith as Steve is away. Conflict can be good in a highly functional team, as noted today from the manager of the publishing group at Redgate Software.
2020-10-22 (first published: 2016-10-13)
192 reads
Bingle is my Senior DBA
When working with SQL Server, many people don't need the search engine to be their junior DBA, they need it to be their senior DBA.
2016-10-10
153 reads
What do you do or think about on the way to work?
I recently changed jobs and my commute time doubled, I found myself with more time to think and I started asking questions.
2023-09-11 (first published: 2016-10-10)
227 reads
Do you have DBA syndrome?
Sometimes DBAs become resistant to change. When they lose focus on their full purpose they may have DBA syndrome.
2016-10-05
150 reads
Intelligence from Data
This week Steve Jones looks at the idea of using AI and machine learning with your data to develop amazing new insight.
2016-10-03
54 reads
Coming Attacks
What happens if we can't access the Internet? We should be prepared, at home and work. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2016-10-03
93 reads
The Exciting World of Data
Steve Jones gave a keynote, and has a little fun this week with the topic of his talk.
2016-09-30
81 reads
2016-09-29
67 reads
What is the Future of Monitoring?
Monitoring your systems is critical to ensuring security and stability. Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on where monitoring might go with more computer assistance in the future.
2016-09-28
92 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
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