Test Data Management (TDM) is essential in software development to ensure your application runs smoothly and reliably across different environments. When deploying applications in Azure, Test Data Management can...
2024-05-29 (first published: 2024-05-13)
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This blog post is about Test Data Management – or my take on it. I just saw that a video I did for my good mates at Redgate is...
2024-05-01 (first published: 2024-04-30)
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Are you looking to boost your skills and knowledge in Database DevOps, learn how to transition to the cloud, and work across multiple databases? Join me and fellow speakers/experts...
2024-05-01
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A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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In November 2023 I did a session at PASS Summit and one of my sessions was voted https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/have-you-watched-some-of-the-most-popular-sessions-from-summit-2023/ That session was called DevOps is about Growing People rather than...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...
2024-03-20
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I love KQL so much I even made a video and if you compare it to my last blog post – yeah my hair has changed a bit…And my...
2023-04-07 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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If you have read any of my last few posts on provisioning Azure Data Explorer then you will probably be wondering….. Will he write about Powershell? Ok, I will....
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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Background: Azure Data Explorer is a powerful analytics service that allows us to quickly ingest, store, and analyze large volumes of data from various sources. Azure Data Factory is...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-19)
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I recently did a talk to the Data Platform Down Under User group and it covers a whole heap of stuff that I’ve written about in this series. Check...
2023-03-20
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Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way...
Microsoft fixed the AVX instruction issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers