Did Not Know That - Redirecting CMD to the Clipboard
One of the items I frequently deal with as a Production DBA is drive alarms. I have written previously about...
2018-09-12 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
The Mystery of the Exploding T-Log
There were a stack of errors overnight in the DB123 database on SQL01, including one horror show error:
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Log Name: ApplicationSource: MSSQLSERVERDate: 5/24/2018...
2018-08-20 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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Speaking This Weekend in Iowa City!
Come out to SQL Saturday Iowa at the University of Iowa this Saturday 06/23/2018 for a SQL Saturday that never...
2018-06-21
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Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal
As a remote DBA I often have to log in to client systems for a fixed amount of time and...
2018-06-27 (first published: 2018-06-15)
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Double Win- Watch DeWitt and Help SQLSoldier's Loved Ones!
Brent Ozar (blog/@BrentO) is sponsoring a special webcast in a couple weeks, with an amazing presenter:
https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/06/announcing-a-very-special-sqlfamily-webcast-with-dr-david-dewitt/
The webcast (“SQL Query Optimization....
2018-06-09
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2018!
I found out a few days ago that one of my sessions was selected for Summit this Fall - I will...
2018-06-06
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Toolbox - How Long Has My Server Been Up?
https://imgflip.com/i/2axp6yNo..not that Up (although it is awesome!)
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As a remote service provider a common request is to follow up after a server...
2018-05-24
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When Good Query Plans Go Bad
Today's story starts again with a page escalation:
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We are seeing very high CPU usage on DistServer01. Could you please take...
2018-05-25 (first published: 2018-05-18)
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Why Don't I have a Preferred Replica?
The client reported that the log file on their main database was growing unusually large, and when they checked the...
2018-04-27 (first published: 2018-04-18)
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Toolbox - Do You Have Current Backups?
On our managed servers we run a job each day to check that either a FULL or DIFF has run...
2018-04-04
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
What DevOps Look Like in Microsoft Fabric
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
Forums
Can an Azure App Service Managed Identity be used for SQL Login?
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
how to write this query?
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
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