T-SQL Tuesday #181: A Technology Present
It’s the last T-SQL Tuesday of the year, and it’s amazing to think we’ve gotten to #181. That’s over 15 years of monthly blog parties. This month we have...
2024-12-10
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Blog Posts
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume) Redgate Monitor and needed more job history than they had in msdb.sysjobhistory. They wanted to...
2024-12-09 (first published: 2024-11-27)
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Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or maybe you need an easy way to find broken field references in a report? Certain...
2024-12-09 (first published: 2024-11-27)
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A New Word: Fardle-dun
fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and...
2024-12-06
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Big Queries, Big Money
I had been meaning to post this, so as I finished a piece that referenced this, I decided to post the picture. This was from Small Data SF, where...
2024-12-06
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Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS Data Community Summit. This was a lot of fun, us grabbing a space in the...
2024-12-06 (first published: 2024-11-22)
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the data platform and AI. Check out the Major announcements and Book of News. Below are...
2024-12-06 (first published: 2024-11-26)
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How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful applications on Kubernetes.Even though almost no one questions using Kubernetes (K8s) to manage container applications...
2024-12-04 (first published: 2024-11-23)
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When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company?
The post When is the perfect moment to build a data strategy in a company? appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-12-04 (first published: 2024-11-25)
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How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file would be. In QA, I have (relatively) large dbs (compared to prod). Enter the pgstattuple...
2024-12-02 (first published: 2024-11-21)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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