Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
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Grant Fritchey
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Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
524 reads
Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
482 reads
A View Is Not A Table
Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query...
2016-04-19 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Query Store and Optimize For Ad Hoc
I love presenting sessions because you get so many interesting questions. For example, what happens with Optimize for Ad Hoc...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-28)
1,930 reads
Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...
2016-04-05
547 reads
Speaker of the Month: April 2016
THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL POST!
Seriously.
My Speaker of the Month for April 2016 is Keith Tate (b|t) and his...
2016-04-01
491 reads
Do You Teach Azure Data Platform?
I offer instruction on the Azure Data Platform, and have for about six years, since shortly after it came out....
2016-03-29
812 reads
Cross Database Query in Azure SQL Database
You can’t query across databases in Azure SQL Database… or can you?
Let’s check. I’ve created two new databases on an...
2016-03-28 (first published: 2016-03-21)
3,115 reads
Happy Dance!
I’m all like:
Because I saw this on an eval:
I’ve been trying to ramp up to take advantage of my MSDN...
2016-03-25
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Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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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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