Snowflake Editions
You have decided that snowflake is the technology you want to use to build your next gen data platform, you have decided your cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP) then...
2022-07-13
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Arun Sirpal
Snowflake Data Cloud
Time to shift gears away from the world of relational databases whether that is in the cloud, on-prem, Linux-based, containers or even sitting within Kubernetes. Everyone has heard of...
2022-07-06
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A New MVP Led Training Initiative – Cloud Formations
Hello Readers – I wanted to make sure those who follow my blog have heard about the new MVP led training initiative started by Paul Andrew (@mrpaulandrew). It’s called...
2022-07-04
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Azure CLI – Deleting Resources
Azure CLI is really handy for all sorts of tasks. When I build solutions, POCs and environments and I want to tear down the resources I like to use...
2022-06-16
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Azure Storage Replication Types
Storage Accounts are pretty much integrated into so many different designs in Azure, whether you are using Azure Synapse, 3rd party product like Snowflake, or Event Streaming designs –...
2022-06-15
61 reads
Azure VM Scale Sets
I really like scale sets. It lets you create and manage up to 1000 load balanced VMs per availability zone using windows or Linux images. (We can have flexible...
2022-06-09
47 reads
Azure VM Types
There are many different family groups for Azure VMs each with its own purpose. Below is a summary of what can be selected. This is important because for example...
2022-06-06
17 reads
Azure High Availability
Lets write about Microsoft Azure, specially the area of high availability when it comes to virtual machines. No doubt you will know about Azure Virtual Machines. IaaS approach is...
2022-05-31
17 reads
Azure SQL Managed Instance – Maintenance Windows
A post close to my heart, Azure SQL Managed Instance, I have blogged about this many times but I feel I should be sharing more details about this. One...
2022-05-12
280 reads
Azure Redis Cache and Geo-replication
The concept of a geo-replicated partnership between a primary and secondary node is very similar to that of something you may have seen with Azure SQL DB, where the...
2022-05-06
75 reads
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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