SQL Saturday Organizer Q&A
A little while ago, Ray Kim (blog | twitter) asked a few folks who organize SQL Saturday events a few questions for his blog. The results are in and...
2020-04-09
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SQL Prompt and SSMS 18.5
I downloaded SSMS 18.5, as there were a lot of fixes in here and thought this was a good upgrade to try. I’d heard reports of major changes in...
2020-04-08
2,250 reads
Jupyter Book Challenges in ADS
I was excited to try the Jupyter Book feature in the March Azure Data Studio (ADS) release. I’ve thought notebooks were an interesting way to teach and I’m looking...
2020-04-22 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Join me (virtually) in Adelaide!
I will be presenting a session to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group on April 15th, 2020, and if you’re awake at that time (it’ll be 9pm on April...
2020-04-08
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Data Bits – Episode 5 – Louis Davidson
The one and only – Dr. SQL – Louis Davidson (b|t|t|t) stopped by for a chat! Relational Algebra, Disney, Dollywood and a SQL Dump Truck ??
The post Data Bits...
2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Has this login been used recently?
I get asked this every now and again, along with the companion When was the last time this login was ... Continue reading
2020-04-20 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Make Database Code Reusable in SQL Source Control with Deployment Filters
When I first began working with databases, I was lucky to land a job at a little start-up which had solid development and operations processes: all our code, including...
2020-04-20 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Switching between different Azure Data Factory environments
When working with Azure Data Factory, it’s possible you have multiple ADF environments. For example, you can have one for dev, one for test and one for production. Unfortunately,...
2020-04-21 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Adjusting pod eviction time in Kubernetes
One of the best features of Kubernetes is the built-in high availability. When a node goes offline, all pods on that node are terminated and new ones spun up...
2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Azure SQL Database – Error Logs?
Ok, so Azure SQL doesn’t really have its own error log based somewhere on a machine within \MSSQLLog directory but the closest thing you will get is a system...
2020-04-07
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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