If your Surface Book loses it’s keyboard and trackpad – try removing KB4074588 update
My Surface Book (gen 1) recently did updates and then a day or so later the keyboard and trackpad mysteriously...
2018-02-24
445 reads
The Hybrid DBA's Blog
Speaking at PASS Summit and why you need to think about submitting….
This post is about the honor and experience of speaking at PASS Summit not once (2016) but twice (2017).
I recently...
2018-01-29
375 reads
Why I am leaving a role/company I loved
This non-technical post is about why I am leaving a technical company after working there for 17 + years.
If you are...
2018-01-07
513 reads
Changing TFS to use HTTPS? — update your agent settings too….
This blog post is about Team Foundation Server (TFS) and is about the situation where you need remember to update...
2017-12-16
514 reads
SSRS won’t bind HTTPS to new certificate — “We are unable to create the certificate binding”
This blog post is around the situation where you have SSRS setup to use HTTPS and thus using a certificate...
2017-12-21 (first published: 2017-12-11)
1,852 reads
How the gym made me a better database bloke…..
A blog post about how many reverse bicep curls or Romanian DeadLiftsI can do…? As Rob Farley (t | b | w)...
2017-10-04
485 reads
SQL Server 2017 — change the tag for your docker images
Firstly:
SQL Server 2017 is now officially released!
I have been using SQL Server 2017 running on Linux for a while now...
2017-10-03
517 reads
Want to know what software is running on the VSTS Hosted Agent? Go here….
This is related to my previous post about installing things on my Private-Hosted agent that I use for my VSTS...
2017-10-02
270 reads
When upgrading a Visual Studio project — you need to upgrade your TFS/VSTS Agent
This post is linked to my post about hosting VSTS private agents . I had recently upgraded my Visual Studio environment...
2017-10-01
495 reads
DevOPs is not just about the latest & greatest tools
I’m a technical guy.
Thus – I love tools. They make stuff go.
Tools are great.
Except – as I wrote in my other post...
2017-08-10 (first published: 2017-07-26)
1,761 reads
Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
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Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers