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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Azure Player Blog
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
7 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-07-07)
Hello, data eaters! Today, coming back from my friend by car, I was browsing a few posts on my cell (calmly – my wife was driving). At some point,...
2019-07-07
15 reads
Azure Databricks – create new workspace and cluster
In this post, I will quickly show you how to create a new Databricks in Azure portal, create our first cluster and how to start work with it. This...
2019-07-04
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Last Week Reading (2019-06-23)
Hello folks! Let’s take a look at a set of information from the field again. Press The best practices for performance comparison between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL...
2019-06-23
23 reads
ASF 023 video invitation
I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is Amit Bansal. We were talking to him during this...
2019-06-21
15 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-06-16)
Hello Data girls and guys! A lot of Microsoft’s announcements in many areas of the data platform. Here you have a big portion of news today. Press Unlock the...
2019-06-16
13 reads
SSDT (SqlPackage) thread crashes with error when publishing
In this post, I will show you one of the scenarios when SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) can fail unexpectedly while publishing database project to target server or preparation...
2019-06-12
76 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-06-09)
Hello there! Another week, another roundup of Internet interesting stuff. Press Microsoft Business Applications Summit The event is happening now in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA....
2019-06-10
17 reads
Last Weeks Reading (2019-05-26)
It was tremendously extensive week for me (a week ago) when I spent time between two conferences: SQLDay (Wroclaw, Poland) and SQL Saturday #857 (Kiev, Ukraine). I’ve been helping...
2019-05-26
12 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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