Friday Reading 2017-09-15
Excited for next week as I’m heading down to Cork to speak at the User Group there. Over 3 years...
2017-09-15
360 reads
The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Creating Hyper-V VMs with Powershell
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Rob Sewell (b|t) and surprise, surprise, it focuses on Powershell so I thought...
2017-09-12
389 reads
Friday Reading 2017-09-08
It’s going to be a fun weekend as it’s SQLSaturday Cambridge tomorrow! Haven’t been to this event before, it looks...
2017-09-08
386 reads
Exploring the Kubernetes dashboard in Azure Container Services
Last week I went through how to run SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services (ACS)
This week I want...
2017-09-06
828 reads
Upcoming speaking events
Back in March I did my first “feature length” presentation at SQL Saturday Iceland
At that point I’d done a few...
2017-09-04
259 reads
Friday Reading 2017-09-01
Going to be a busy few weeks as conference season gets into full swing. Really looking forward to the next...
2017-09-01
329 reads
Running SQL Server in Kubernetes on Azure Container Services
I’ve been meaning to get to grips with Kubernetes for a while now but I have to admit, I was...
2017-08-30
869 reads
Monday Coffee: Follow the instructions
Last week I was working on an upgrade and ran into a few issues. Whilst waiting for the company’s support...
2017-08-28
300 reads
Friday Reading 2017-08-25
Great week this week as I’ve been selected to speak at 4 of the SQL Relay events in October! Really...
2017-08-25
318 reads
Monday Coffee: Posting error messages
I posted a couple of messages on twitter over the weekend giving any new bloggers advice that was given to...
2017-08-21
285 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...
Forums
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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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