The Year in Review 2008
Steve Jones looks back at the past year and database news that has occurred.
Steve Jones looks back at the past year and database news that has occurred.
Comparing data from two queries to see if they return the same results can be an interesting challenge. David Ziffer brings us a great way to do this using Excel.
In the first of a series of articles on the tricks of tackling temporal data in SQL, Joe Celko discusses SQL's temporal data types and agonizes over the fact that, although there are ANSI/ISO Standards for temporal operations in SQL, every vendor has something different.
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
In a previous tip on Disaster Recovery Procedures in SQL Server 2005 Part 1, we have seen how we can come up with a disaster recovery procedure in SQL Server 2005. There are other ways to increase availability of your highly critical database in SQL Server 2005. What are those other options?
Moving databases is fairly simple, but when you move a system database, there are a few extra steps to follow. MVP Brian Knight walks us through how to move temdb in this video.
What would you do if you want to perform 15 to 30 lookups using the same reference dataset? This is how I did it...
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
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...
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
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