Kubernetes Pipelines
This post continues looking at some of the Kubernetes concepts I’ve been learning with the 50 days of Kubernetes (K8s). Specifically in this post, I’m writing and thinking about...
2019-07-22
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Blog Posts
Last Week Reading (2019-07-21)
Another week passed. Look what did I find during that time. Press British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach The penalty imposed on BA is the first...
2019-07-22
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Moving Databases into Azure SQL Elastic Pools
Quite a simple requirement (when I needed it a few months ago). Study my Azure SQL database environment below. As you can see I have a standard elastic pool...
2019-07-22
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The Data platform has evolved – so too must the DBA.
This blog post is around the changing landscape of both SQL Server and the people who are our trusted guardians of it – DBAs. If you have been involved...
2019-07-22
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Top Modern Data Warehouse questions
Below are the top 15 questions I am seeing from customers looking to build a modern data warehouse in the cloud, and the blogs that I have wrote that...
2019-07-22
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Azure Cosmos DB: real-time data movement using Change Feed and Azure Functions
In this article, we will focus on creating a data pipeline to ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Cosmos DB container changes to a SQL Server database. Note that this...
2019-07-21
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Azure Cosmos DB: real-time data movement using Change Feed and Azure Functions
In this article, we will focus on creating a data pipeline to ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Cosmos DB container changes to a SQL Server database. Note that this...
2019-07-21
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What does the Machine Learning process look like?
This is the second article in the Machine Learning area. I have explained a bit more about the steps the Machine Learning process is built of. You will be...
2019-07-21
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SQL Saturday Albany Slides & Demo Code
Thanks to everyone who came out to see dbatools for the Uninitiated at SQL Saturday Albany on July 20th, 2019. I had a lot of fun sharing dbatools with...
2019-07-20
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“An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client cannot be found” – during SQL Server 2017 install
This blog post is about a situation that initially perplexed me – I was installing SQL Server 2017 onto a new DEMO machine – running Windows Server 2019. This...
2019-07-19
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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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