SQL Server 2022 has been released! In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how you can install the latest version of SQL Server on your machine. I’ll be using the developer edition of SQL Server 2022, which can be downloaded here. The download link will only download a small 4MB file. Opening this file […]
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Speaking Engagements for Fall 2022
The summer holiday is almost over, and this means conference season will be back in full swing again. I’ll be speaking at a couple of events in the second half of this year: Data Bash. A new free virtual conference focusing on the German-speaking nations in Europe. And on data of course. There are sessions […]
Cool Stuff in SQL Server 2022 – IS DISTINCT FROM
I have a blog post series about some nice features in the Snowflake cloud data warehouse; one of them is about the IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM predicate. I was excited to find out this is now also included in the T-SQL language since the SQL Server 2022 CTP 2.1 preview! You can find the official […]
Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2022
I’m very excited to announce I’ll be giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect (in the beginning it was called SQL Server Day(s)). It will be my 11th session at the event (I think only Nico Jacobs has more; Nico has done a perfect strike: 15 sessions!). I will be talking about […]
Parsing JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON
Recently I had a piece of JSON of which I needed to extract data from to put into a table in Azure SQL DB. Unfortunately, the structure of the JSON itself was too complex to map automatically in Azure Data Factory. It might be possible though, but after a few tries to map it manually […]
Dynamically Map JSON to SQL in Azure Data Factory
We’re reading in some JSON files in Azure Data Factory (ADF), for example for a REST API. We’re storing the data in a relational table (SQL Server, Azure SQL DB…). The data volume is low, so we’re going to use a Copy Data activity in a pipeline, rather than a mapping data flow (or whatever […]
Convert Local Datetime to UTC (pre-SQL Server 2016)
Recently I was working with a client who was still on SQL Server 2012. Support issues aside, there are some very useful T-SQL functions/clauses who didn’t exist in 2012, but were introduced in a later version. One of them is AT TIME ZONE, which you can use the convert dates between time zones, as demonstrated […]
T-SQL Tuesday #143 – Short code examples
It’s this time of the month again! T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging party on the second Tuesday. This month’s topic is “What are your go to handy short scripts?” brought to you by John McCormack. What are those little short bits of code that you can’t live without? I’m talking about little snippets that […]
The GREATEST new T-SQL Function
If the title isn’t obvious enough, this blog post is about the new function GREATEST, and it’s sibling LEAST. But wait, how come there’s a new T-SQL function? There isn’t a new release of SQL Server! That’s right, those two new functions are released in Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Synapse […]
#TSQL2sday 136 – Your Favorite Data Type
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month’s honor to host the blog party goes to Brent Ozar. The topic is data types: Mad about money? Feverish about float? Tell us what you use your favorite data type for, and what people need to know before they get started using it. Data types have so many interesting […]