The July Car Update (2008)
With the price of gas rising and no end in sight. Steve Jones steps back to talk a bit about what solutions there might be to ease the burdens on everyone.
2008-07-29
119 reads
Editorials
Lazy Developers - Database Weekly (2008/07/28)
Developers tend to be lazy in Steve Jones' view. This week he examines some of the problems that this lack of effort can cause in applications.
2008-07-28
502 reads
The More Things Change ...
Steve Jones talks about how IT hasn't changed very much over the years and how your career might not be that different in ten years.
2008-07-28
203 reads
Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
2008-07-25
778 reads
Virtual Conversions
Virtualization is becoming more and more popular, being implemented in many companies every day to replace the need to add more physical boxes to your data center. Steve Jones comments on some of the handy features of virtualization.
2008-07-24
222 reads
Knock, Knock...What's Funny?
Humor in the workplace is essential for a good environment, but employees need to be careful about what they might consider sharing.
2008-07-23
236 reads
Going Naked
Steve Jones talks about the value of software maintenance and how you should view their value.
2008-07-21
88 reads
The Database Weekly Update for July 21, 2008
In this update from the past week Steve Jones looks at leaks in encrypted disks and Web 2.0 development.
2008-07-21
49 reads
Soft Skills
A guest Friday poll from Adam Angelini, DBA and member of the band Wakamojo, which was featured on some editorial podcasts. This week Adam wonders about soft skills for DBAs.
2008-07-18
386 reads
Pulling Together
When a co-worker is ill, what should the rest of the office do? How do you handle absences that might extend for weeks or months. Steve Jones comments on the responsibilities of the team.
2008-07-17
90 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
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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