Growing Outside of the English World
The world is bigger than one country, and Steve is trying to remember that.
2021-04-07
82 reads
Editorials
Removing SA from Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is getting the ability to turn off SQL authentication.
2021-04-06 (first published: 2021-03-23)
833 reads
Maintenance Windows
Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.
2021-04-05
163 reads
Malleable Source Control
Git has proved to be a better fit to the needs and workflow of a database development team than anything that came before. Git is valuable because it encourages branching and merging, giving more choice in the way that your team can work. Due to the ease with which you can adapt Git, there is […]
2021-04-03
155 reads
I Hate To Send This Email
Steve Jones wonders how many of us have had to send, or will have to send this email.
2021-04-02 (first published: 2017-03-23)
454 reads
Expanded Support for Non-Windows SQL Server
Steve is excited that SQL Server is moving to a new platform.
2021-04-01
144 reads
Constant Integration
Apple buys a company every few weeks. The data integration for this must be a large effort.
2021-03-31
98 reads
Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
70 reads
How Quickly We Forget
One of the interesting things about modern software is how updates are handled.
2021-03-29
78 reads
When Do We Ask for Help?
When do we ask for help? It's a tough balance to strike between asking too soon or waiting too long.
2021-03-26
123 reads
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