The CHOOSE keyword
G’day,
I love coming across features of SQL that I’ve not used before and one happened today – the CHOOSE statement – introduced...
2014-02-17
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Marty
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TSQL-Tuesday#050 – Automation
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Well, it’s the first TSQL-Tuesday of 2014 and one of my New Years resolutions for 2014 is to contribute to...
2014-01-14
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Do you clean up after yourself?
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I remember a fair few years ago when I was relativly new to TSQL creating a stored procedure that...
2014-01-13
1,263 reads
Installed SQL SERVER 2012? maybe you’d like to re-set your shortcuts!
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Just a quick post on a seemingly trivial matter that others may find useful.
The post was prompted by the Simple-Talk...
2013-12-30
1,363 reads
SQL Saturday #252, Christchurch New Zealand
TweetSQL Saturday #252 Christchurch, New Zealand
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Well, these are exciting times for the Christchurch SQL SERVER User Group.
After a period of...
2013-07-28
1,172 reads
Dedicated Admin Connections (DAC) and SQL SERVER 2012 SSMS
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As part of any SQL SERVER install that I do, I turn on Remote admin connections (using sp_configure) and open...
2013-04-07
5,183 reads
Multiple ALTER DATABASE SET options
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Did you know that you can actually combine multiple SET operations into a single ALTER DATABASE statement.
It’s true, you can!
Mostly...
2013-04-06
4,299 reads
SSPI error and Incorrect timing.
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Recently, quite out of the blue I started seeing this error when I tried to log into my SQL instance...
2013-03-28
1,659 reads
The first record on data page.
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I had a recent conversation about data pages. There was some debate about the location of the first record on...
2012-08-06
1,197 reads
2012 DDL for Roles
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I’m extremely pleased that Microsoft are continuing their commitment to provide full DDL to preform TSQL operations that have previously been preformed using stored...
2012-04-22
1,329 reads
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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