Taking a Sabbatical
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is on vacation. Today Andy discusses sabbaticals, and a change in his life.
2012-02-28
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Editorials
Call That a Database? This is a Database.
If only the English language had a range of words to describe all the different types of database, there would be so much less confusion in the industry.
2012-02-27
280 reads
The Power of Hadoop
Hadoop is an open source framework for working with data, and one that Microsoft has adopted. Is it worth using in your environment? Steve Jones thinks you should investigate it.
2012-02-27
791 reads
A Break from Databases
A Friday poll that's a break from work, and should be a bit of fun. Today Steve Jones asks about movies, and what's been interesting from the last year.
2012-02-24
162 reads
Future Virtual Machines
What's the benefit of virtual machines and hypervisors? Steve Jones has a few comments on them and their future.
2012-02-23
343 reads
2012-02-21
162 reads
Putting JSON on an equal footing to XML
In SQL Server, we treat XML with a reverence that is disproportionate to its importance. The SQL Server team have indeed gone big on XML, as Michael Cole’s book reveals. The industry has gone big in another direction: JSON.
2012-02-20
629 reads
Programmers v Salespeople
This Friday Steve Jones asks whether you think the salespeople or the technical people are more important to the success of a company. And if they should be better compensated.
2012-02-17
247 reads
Use Your Tools
It's easy to get stuck in a rut and not learn to use the new features and capabilities of your tools are they evolve. Steve Jones reminds you it's worth a little time investment to learn about your tools.
2012-02-15
223 reads
A Valentine for the Community
This Valentine's Day Steve Jones wants to thank everyone in the community for their efforts.
2012-02-14
97 reads
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
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I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Azure Synapse database refresh
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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