September on the Road
I am so excited for the next three weeks. This is a trip that has been in the planning for nearly 2 years. I have always loved travelling and...
2019-09-01
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Blog Posts
The Journey to SQL Server 2019 – where does your own journey start?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of weeks back I presented the keynote at SQL Server Saturday Sydney, which was an absolute blast. It was...
2019-08-31
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The Journey to SQL Server 2019 – where does your own journey start?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of weeks back I presented the keynote at SQL Server Saturday Sydney, which was an absolute blast. It was...
2019-08-31
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Actual Kubernetes
This post continues looking at my process of learning more about Kubernetes. I’ve been working through the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). I completed the first 3 sections (Days...
2019-08-30 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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Adding SQL Change Automation to Jenkins for Database CI
In a previous post, I explained how to get Jenkins running in a container for your local CI work. In this one, I’ll expand on the process for database...
2019-08-30 (first published: 2019-08-21)
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
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SQL in the City Streamed Next Week
I’m off to the UK this weekend, for a few commitments next week. One of those is SQL in the City Streamed, which is taking place on Wednesday September...
2019-08-30
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-08-29
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Data Lake Architecture using Delta Lake, Databricks and ADLS Gen2 Part 2
This is the second post in a series about modern Data Lake Architecture
where I cover how we can build high quality data lakes using Delta Lake,
Databricks and...
2019-08-29
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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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