Just Say No
Steve Jones reminds us that we must manage our time, and learn to do so despite the demands placed on us.
Steve Jones reminds us that we must manage our time, and learn to do so despite the demands placed on us.
This SQL Prompt tip shows you how code highlighting makes it easier to find which items match up with each other.
Sandeep Mittal provides an introduction to the COALESCE function and shows how to use it.
What are the most popular SQL implementations for Hadoop? How different are they from T-SQL?
JP Morgan suffers the largest data breach for a financial institution, but Steve Jones doesn't think this record will stand for long.
Transparent Data Encryption offers the ability to encrypt content of the database, its transaction logs, as well as backups while at rest. Encryption and decryption are performed in real-time, at the individual page level, as the database is being written to and read from storage, without necessitating changes to applications accessing their data. Marcin Policht reviews the feature.
Before adopting Hadoop into your organisation there are a number of factors to consider. This article highlights some of the key points.
In SQL Server, heaps are rightly treated with suspicion. Although there are rare cases where they perform well, they are likely to be the cause of poor performance. If a table is likely to have a large number of changes, then it can become fragmented due to way that space is allocated and forward pointers used. How does one detect this problem? Is it significant? How does one deal with it, if necessary? Neeraj Tripathi explains.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at those that run software early in its lifecycle.
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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 t1.[key] AS row,
t2.*
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t1
CROSS APPLY OPENJSON(t1.value) t2; See possible answers