ASF 024 video invitation
I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is an amazing woman, not only in AI and Power...
2019-07-19
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Blog Posts
Azure SQL Database SLA Updates
I am sure many missed the updates to Azure SQL Database SLA (Service Level Agreement). It used to be 99.99% across all tiers but split between two different high-availability...
2019-07-19
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Behind the Scenes: How I Create Weekly Technical Videos
Be sure to watch this week’s video to get the full behind the scenes experience! Today I want to share my process for blogging and making weekly YouTube videos....
2019-07-19 (first published: 2019-07-02)
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 2
This post is part two in a three-part series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. It builds on...
2019-07-19
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 2
This post is part two in a three-part series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. It builds on...
2019-07-19
99 reads
Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 2
This post is part two in a three-part series that addresses how to use
Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks. It builds on...
2019-07-19
11 reads
How to Persuade Your Company to Change
Like a lot of developers and database administrators, I do a fair amount of short-term problem solving during the course of my normal work week. I get to join...
2019-07-19
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Interview with Grant Fritchey
This is the fourth interview we have done. This time our guest is Grant Fritchey! Probably you do not know that but Grant has started his career in …...
2019-07-19 (first published: 2019-07-04)
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One Way to Find Broken Code on Your Server
Before we approached our last major SQL Server upgrade, I was curious about what might break. Yes, I had used the DEA to check our code against deprecated or...
2019-07-19
46 reads
Power BI Monthly Digest – July 2019
In this month’s Power BI Digest with Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through some of our favorite Power BI
2019-07-19
25 reads
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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