Autumn Update - Trick or Treat
Its been a busy few weeks for me, most of that outside of gethynellis.com I’m in the process of moving...
2016-11-01
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Gethyn Ellis
You don't need any Training? OK...I believe you.
This week's Super duper IT training offers are in:
If you see any that take your fancy let me know. Drop...
2016-10-13
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SQL Friday: Weekly Round up 30th September
This week has been a relatively relaxed week for me. I had a one-day onsite event in Cardiff on Wednesday...
2016-09-30
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How to Setup Kerberos Correctly
David was in Copenhagen this weekend delivering his Kerberos talk Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL DBA to SQL...
2016-09-29 (first published: 2016-09-20)
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Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!
As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...
2016-09-29
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Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio
Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...
2016-09-28
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SQL Relay 2016
It less than week to SQL Relay - a week long SQL conference that is visiting Birmingham, Cardiff, Reading, Nottingham and...
2016-09-27
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TGI SQL Friday: Weekly Roundup 23rd September
Its been another Learning Tree week for me this week and a very interesting one at that. I'm on the...
2016-09-23
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Have you Upgraded From SQL Server 2005?
My first Learning Tree SQL Server Newsletter that was sent out back in August was titled SQL Server 2016: Keeping...
2016-09-22
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Building Oracle 12c on Linux 7 on Hyper-V
David has written a white paper, or short ebook titled building oracle 12C on Linux 7 VM residing on Hyper-V....
2016-09-19
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Blogs
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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UNISTR Basics
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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