Multi-Script, Multi-DB Deployments
A way to handle application releases involving multiple scripts and/or multiple databases.
A way to handle application releases involving multiple scripts and/or multiple databases.
How do you triage and rate the bugs that come in for software? How should Microsoft do this for SQL Server. Steve Jones has a few comments.
Congratulations to Tracy Hamlin, voted to be the Exceptional DBA of 2010.
This is a challenge to identify the downtime of servers from the log data generated by a monitoring application.
For security reasons many sites disable the extended stored procedure xp_cmdshell, which is used to run DOS commands or executables. When you really have to run a DOS command or an executable from a stored procedure how can you get around this limitation without a breakdown in security.
One common problem in querying is to reference the previous row in a data set as part of a calculation. David McKinney brings us an interesting solution using SQL Server 2005.
This Friday Steve Jones talks about your career, and training, and what you are doing about it.
It's time to integrate social data, enterprise analytics and enterprise data for better social-media strategy.
Are there some things that are beyond automation in your company? Steve Jones comments on the difficulty of changing things with automation in some cases.
Describes how to convert database mirroring to log shipping in SQL 2005/2008.
By Vinay Thakur
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Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
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