I previously wrote a post on how to convert a SQL Server Docker image to a Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution. I did this because if you tried to...
2022-10-05 (first published: 2022-09-27)
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EightkB is back! Today we announced the schedule for the next EightKB, which is happening at 1pm UTC on the 3rd of August. We have five more amazing, mind-melting...
2022-07-13
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A while back I wrote a post on Adjusting Pod Eviction Timings in Kubernetes. To test the changes made in that post I had to shut down nodes in...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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I really like the mssql-cli tool. I use it pretty much everyday however it seems like it’s not being maintained anymore and as such, there are issues when trying...
2022-06-08 (first published: 2022-05-13)
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A while ago I blogged about an awesome Chaos Engineering tools built by Eugenio Marzo (t) call KubeInvaders. Since then Eugenio has updated the repo to make it easier...
2022-03-25 (first published: 2022-03-10)
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OK so maybe not replacing, this is more like emulating VS Code in Vim. Disclaimer – I like VS Code and I won’t be uninstalling it anytime soon and...
2022-01-14
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I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it. Once I’d written a script, I would...
2022-01-26 (first published: 2022-01-07)
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There are new Ubuntu Pro 20.04 images available in the Azure marketplace with SQL Server 2019 pre-installed so I thought I’d run through how to create a three node...
2021-12-08 (first published: 2021-12-01)
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I was adding databases to an availability group (SQL Server 2017 CU20 instance) the other day and one database failed to automatically seed to the secondary. When I looked...
2021-10-18 (first published: 2021-10-05)
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There are a whole bunch of environment variables that can be used to configure SQL Server when run in a Docker container. You can check out the full list...
2021-10-08 (first published: 2021-09-24)
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By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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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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