"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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Will Assaf
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday 2014: SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Databases
Thanks for joining us at the first annual Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday!
Here is my presentation for the 1:15 presentation in...
2014-06-21
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday
I'm thrilled to be joining many of my colleagues at Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday this weekend at the Louisiana Technology...
2014-06-16
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Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness
One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...
2014-05-06 (first published: 2014-04-24)
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Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision
This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...
2014-05-01 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,955 reads
South Alabama Day of .NET Presentations Downloads
I have been running into longtime SQL Saturday friend Ryan Duclos at SQL Saturday events in Baton Rouge and Pensacola...
2014-03-29
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South Alabama Day of .NET 2014
About 200 miles east of Baton Rouge there lies a beachside town called Mobile, AL that will settle down long...
2014-03-27
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Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition
I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...
2014-02-27 (first published: 2014-02-24)
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Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
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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