The DBA Boat
For a fun Friday poll, what type of SQL or database related name would you give to yourself or someone else? Steve Jones asks the question after someone sends an email about naming their new boat with a SQL name.
For a fun Friday poll, what type of SQL or database related name would you give to yourself or someone else? Steve Jones asks the question after someone sends an email about naming their new boat with a SQL name.
For a fun Friday poll, what type of SQL or database related name would you give to yourself or someone else? Steve Jones asks the question after someone sends an email about naming their new boat with a SQL name.
This article depicts how to approach row by row updates needed in a salary table. It might not directly let you increase your salary, but it could help you at review time.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Step by step guide to building and debugging a SQL Server StreamInsight input adapter.
Maintaining a professional network can take some effort from you, but the modern social networking tools can help. Steve Jones talks about some of the benefits from keeping in touch with other professionals this way.
A common question I've been asked a lot lately is how to replace the icon in the Report Manager to...
The Query Optimizer gets it right most of the time, but occasionally it chooses a plan that isn't the best possible. You can give the Query Optimiser a better idea by using Table, Join and Query hints. These come with a risk: Any choices you force on the Optimizer by using hints can turn out to be entirely wrong as the database changes with the addition of data over time. Grant Fritchey, in a chapter from his highly acclaimed book, explains further.
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
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