How to grow the exposure of a Data Platform based conference (SQL Saturday South Island)
SQL Saturday conferences are awesome.
That is the opening line of this blog post – because it’s true and understated.
If you’re reading...
2017-04-01
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The Hybrid DBA's Blog
Answer to “Could not locate file ‘xxx_Log’ for database ‘xxx’ in sys.database_files”
This blog post is a form of resolution to the issue of not being able to shrink a transaction log...
2017-03-24
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Having OCD in Azure…
Everyone gives OCD a hard time. When in fact it is something to embrace.
I am of course talking about Operational...
2017-03-22
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I like data – so Azure SQL is (initially) my focus..
My journey with Azure has been around what it can do for me – and the company I work for (Jade...
2017-03-22
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Using Azure CLI to do stuff….
For this post I am going to talk about one of the methods I use to manage my Azure resources.
The...
2017-03-21
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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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