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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Steps needed Getting Apache Spark running on windows involves:
Installing a JRE 8 (Java 1.8/OpenJDK 8) Downloading and extracting SPARK and setting SPARK_HOME Downloading winutils.exe and setting HADOOP_HOME If...
2019-08-29
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Steps needed Getting Apache Spark running on windows involves:
Installing a JRE 8 (Java 1.8/OpenJDK 8) Downloading and extracting SPARK and setting SPARK_HOME Downloading winutils.exe and setting HADOOP_HOME If...
2019-08-29
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Starting on dbatools version 1.0.31 we introduced better coverage for commands that make use of PowerShell Remoting. Which commands? Commands like Get-DbaComputerCertificate, Get-DbaPrivilege, Get-DbaClientAlias, just to mention a few...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-20)
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A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...
2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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Releases seem to be coming out thick and fast at the moment, here’s the latest v1.6 revision to sp_restorescript For those of you backing up to Azure BLOB Storage,...
2019-08-29
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It’s a running joke among the more experienced (read, older) Microsoft Data Platform specialists as to whether you’re #teamprofiler or #teamexevents. I’m very much #teamexevents, but I really don’t...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-19)
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This is one of those typical blog posts that I write for my future self, the guy who keeps fixing the same stuff over and over and forgets what...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-16)
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As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m a big fan of AzCopy, especially now that it has a sync option to keep local data synchronized with blob...
2019-08-28
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I recently had someone tell me, and I’m paraphrasing a bit here: We know how to fix this now, so ... Continue reading
2019-08-28
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By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Happy Holidays, Let's Do Nerdy...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item UNISTR Escape
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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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