Bob Ward

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When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two...

Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4

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In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...

Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop

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I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...

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CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format

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I have a view where I am casting a datetimeoffset(7) field to smalldatetime or...

Used Car Dealerships Near Me – Recommendations Needed

By mintautotrader

Hi everyone, We are selling cars and have a range of options at our...

what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?

By stan

hi for the 2 years i've been here I believe we've had "encryption" turned...

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Question of the Day

Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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