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SQL Server STUFF

The STUFF function in SQL Server is one of those little gems that is very under-used but when needed can be a real handy utility – at least that’s...

2022-01-10

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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY

OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...

2020-06-24 (first published: )

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OPENJSON and an Alias

Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...

2020-06-08

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OPENJSON and an Alias

Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...

2020-06-08

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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;

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