Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
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Editorials
Fantasy baseball and old habits
Old habits are hard to change sometimes. Time and again, regardless of what the task or query for information might be, my go-to source of information is Google. Whether on my phone or computer, my muscle memory instinctively opens a browser window or clicks into the search widget and starts typing. My “google foo” has […]
2025-03-30 (first published: 2025-03-29)
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The Inefficiencies of Kubernetes
Kubernetes hasn't proved to be as useful to many companies as they expected.
2025-03-28
126 reads
The End of SQL Server 2019
Steve has a few thoughts after the end of mainstream support for SQL Server 2019.
2025-03-26
991 reads
Monoliths and Microservices
Should we build modern software as monoliths or microservices? Or something else? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-03-24
136 reads
Smile and Wave Boys
I won't even try to hide it. I got a huge kick out of the penguin characters in the animated movie, Madagascar. For those who don't know, they're trying to escape the zoo, but are trying to hide that from anyone discovering it. So, they put up a front, "Smile and wave boys. Smile and […]
2025-03-22
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More Supply Chain Attacks
Code is vulnerable to supply chain attacks, which aren't something many of us think about.
2025-03-21
109 reads
Lower Your Attack Surface Area
We all know security is important, but we sometimes make the job harder when we don't handle data appropriately.
2025-03-19
168 reads
The Wild Developers of SQL Server like Wildcards
Phil Factor explains the enduring attachment of database developers to wildcards, despite their current deficiencies.
2025-03-17 (first published: 2018-12-17)
496 reads
Widespread New Technology Adoption
It can be hard to change peoples' habits and get them to adopt new technology.
2025-03-15
100 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