I’ve decided that, in fact, it is time to start moving people off the ancient technology, Profiler. Before, I always said, stay where you’re comfortable. However, keeping people comfortable...
2020-02-06 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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For years, I’ve done consulting around helping organizations tune their database platforms, both from within the database and underneath, to help boost performance and availability. Some database design or...
2020-02-06 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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If you read the title to this post and your first thought was That’s not SQL is it? then you ... Continue reading
2020-02-05 (first published: 2020-01-27)
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Welcome to February 2020. It’s the second month of the year 2020! I remember sitting at a server with SQL Server 6.5 installed on it, worrying about the Y2K...
2020-02-05
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We can now pass dynamic values to linked services at run time in Data Factory. This enables us to do things like connecting to different databases on the same...
2020-02-05 (first published: 2020-01-30)
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When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
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When we use ADF to call Databricks we can pass parameters, nice. When we finish running the Databricks notebook we often want to return something back to ADF so...
2020-02-05
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When implementing any kind of automation for database deployments, it’s important to implement safeguards for your production environment. This is needed even in the best conditions when team members...
2020-02-05
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Today I wanted to cover how you can grant the least privilege required to stop, start or restart an Azure VM. This is also a fun great example of...
2020-02-04
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Working on a SQL 2017 database where an external, non-Microsoft application has direct access to read/write data via the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server.
They suddenly began to experience...
2020-02-04 (first published: 2020-01-24)
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By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers