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SQLSaturday Baton Rouge is back!

Looking forward to jambalaya at #SQLSatBR in THIS SATURDAY! Also looking forward to speaking and seeing all of you there, I guess... Register today: https://sqlsaturday.com/2022-08-06-sqlsaturday1026/After I stepped down from the...

2022-08-02 (first published: )

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Thank You Andy!

I remember going into Andy Leonard’s session at PASS Summit in Denver. I’m not going to lie, it was kind of sparsely attended, so I got to sit up...

2022-08-02

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SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022

This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college...

2022-08-01 (first published: )

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What's in a name? (T-SQL Tuesday #152)

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This month’s invitation is from Deborah Melkin (b|t), about venting anything you want. So let’s start this rant.

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and...

2022-07-29 (first published: )

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SQL Server 2025 Generally Available

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This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...

Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?

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"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...

A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler

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Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...

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The Ending Substring

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The Ending Substring

In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?

SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']'

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