Old, but stable
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the older versions you are running in your production environments. Are you still using SQL Server 2000?
2012-03-09
183 reads
Editorials
Scaling Out
Steve Jones likes Service Broker as a scale out technology, but it hasn't caught on. He thinks more people should take a look at this technology and implement it in places where it fits well.
2012-03-08
186 reads
Data Gravity
Does data have gravity? Will the law affect how applications are built and deployed? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2012-03-07
140 reads
Zettabyte
Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
2012-03-06
194 reads
Code Scanning
Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
2012-03-05
200 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-05
267,356 reads
High Availability Upgrades
Today Steve Jones has a poll about the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. Is it worth the upgrade for your company?
2012-03-02
264 reads
Data Compression Double Take
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
2012-03-01
338 reads
Use the 4th Dimension
Today Steve Jones talks about the conflicting demands of home and work and how you can reconcile the requirements of both.
2012-03-01
199 reads
The Cloud is good for your career
Is the cloud good for your career? Steve Jones thinks so, and gives you a few reasons you might want to learn more about it.
2012-02-29
267 reads
Blogs
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
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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