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SQL Server STUFF

• by Marty

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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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More Times Like These with SQL Server

• by Marty

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I blogged the other about have some issues translating Oracle date formats to SQL Server date data types I find the way SQL Server handles dates with a defined...

2021-12-06

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Times Like These with SQL Server

• by Marty

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I was doing some conversion of Oracle code (PL/SQL) to SQL Server code (T-SQL) – which had some quirks. I just thought that I’d share a quick tip that...

2021-12-02

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What exactly is a modern data warehouse?

• by Marty

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G’day, I was asked recently what a modern data warehouse is – and that’s a vey thought provoking question. First, there’s the tag “Modern” – I think what’s modern...

2020-12-14

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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY

• by Marty

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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: 2020-06-09)

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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY

• by Marty

• measure twice, cut once.

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...

2020-06-09

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OPENJSON and an Alias

• by Marty

• measure twice, cut once.

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

• by Marty

• measure twice, cut once.

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 : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

• by Marty

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Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...

2020-06-07

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OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

• by Marty

• measure twice, cut once.

Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...

2020-06-07

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