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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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Tales from the Query Processor III

https://www.flickr.com/photos/socal_jim/2070088596/Hello Dear Reader!  It’s that time of year again.  The leaves are turning, temperatures are changing, and Halloween is once...

2014-10-31

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I'm an MVP

Hello Dear Reader!  Two weeks ago I was very honored to be named a Microsoft SQL Server MVP.  Since then...

2014-10-15

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#PASSVOTE 2014

Hello Dear Reader!  The PASS Board of Director elections are upon us again.  We have 3 spots open and 4...

2014-09-24

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Question of the Day

Strange String Splits

When I run this code, how many rows are returned? 

DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食'
DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食'
SELECT value
FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s)
GO

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