Comments on Acceptable Behavior
Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but...
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-04-23)
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AlwaysOn Failover Bug
I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a...
2012-04-26
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SQL Server Log Backups
While presenting a session on Common Backup Problems both at SQL Saturday in Orange County and at SQL Connections in...
2012-04-02
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Execution Plan for a User Defined Function
When you execute a multi-statement user-defined function you may see an execution plan that looks something like this:
It appears as...
2012-03-30 (first published: 2012-03-26)
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TDE and Compression
I knew that enabling TDE would cause the information stored within to, effectively, be randomized, which means it would seriously...
2012-03-19
2,795 reads
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn & A Thorough Setup
It’s surprisingly easy to set up the new AlwaysOn features. I’ve done it on VMs running on my laptop, from...
2012-03-14 (first published: 2012-03-12)
3,136 reads
Let’s Talk
I’m travelling to several upcoming events and I’d love to sit down and talk with you. Yes, I get it,...
2012-03-08
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Avoiding Bad Query Performance
There’s a very old saying, “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
And my evidence today is:
That’s certainly not...
2012-02-07
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Meme Monday: Deadlines
Tom LaRock (blog|twitter) has assigned an interesting topic for Meme Monday this month, working with deadlines.
Some people hate deadlines. Some...
2012-02-06
1,208 reads
Learning, Networking & Wine
Let’s say, you want to spend a couple of days learning about SQL Server. You also want to spend some...
2012-02-01
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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