Optional vs Required parameters in Stored Procedures
If you are executing a stored procedure with a bunch of parameters it can be a bit of a pain ... Continue reading
2019-07-29
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Blog Posts
Sample Azure DevOps Pipelines
I’ve said it before and I will repeat myself on this because it’s an important concept: DevOps is about culture and communication, not tools Now, that said, to implement...
2019-07-29
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SQL server and Java?
I was generally reading about SQL Server and how things have changed since the days of just having it within a Windows Eco-system only. It then led me to...
2019-07-29
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Think Like a Certification Exam at SQLSaturday Birmingham
Thanks for joining us at SQLSat Birmingham! Had a great session with an awesome amount of participation and shared insights, including some very clever test takers.Congrats and kudos to...
2019-07-29
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Top SQL Server migration questions
Below are the top 12 questions I am seeing from customers looking to migrate on-prem SQL Server to Azure, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to...
2019-07-29
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T-SQL Tuesday #116–Always Linux
This month is an interesting invitation from Tracy Boggiano. It’s on Linux, which I like. I hadn’t thought about this in terms of T-SQL Tuesday, but I think it...
2019-07-29 (first published: 2019-07-09)
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Weekly reading #23
New week has started and apart from the usual information from the data world I would like to share one more. The Machine Learning topic published last week has...
2019-07-29
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ASF 024: Leila Etaati interview
Introduction Leila Etaati is an AI MVP, mentor, trainer, speaker and consultant. She spoke in some important conference such as Microsoft USA Ignite, Microsoft Data Insight Summit, SQL PASS,...
2019-07-26
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Chaos engineering for SQL Server running on AKS using KubeInvaders
A couple of weeks ago I came across an awesome GitHub repo called KubeInvaders which is brilliant work of Eugenio Marzo (b|t) KubeInvaders allows you to play Space Invaders...
2019-07-26 (first published: 2019-07-03)
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 3
This is the third and final post in a series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. Unlike the...
2019-07-26
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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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