PASS Summit 2013: Women In Technology Luncheon
This year I was invited to attend the Women In Technology luncheon as a blogger. So I’ll be live-blogging it...
2013-10-17
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The Scary DBA
PASS Summit 2013 Day 2 Key Note
KILT DAY!
Today we have to eat our vegetables and then get lots and lots of sweet desert.
Or.
Today we hear about...
2013-10-17
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PASS Summit 2013 Day 1 Keynote
I am liveblogging the keynote from the bloggers table at the PASS Summit again this year. Just keep scrolling.
Watching the...
2013-10-16
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Monitoring Structure Changes
Most everyone I know works with environments that are carefully controlled and structured. All changes go through rigorous testing and...
2013-10-22 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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Do Be a Gatekeeper
I read this fascinating blog post called “Don’t Be a Gatekeeper” by Julie Zhuo. Please read that first.
It really resonated...
2013-10-18 (first published: 2013-10-09)
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Azure Account and Spending Limits
If you’ve been working with Azure for a while you probably signed up before they had the ability to create...
2013-10-08
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Speaker of the Month, October 2013
This month I saw several good speakers talking on a variety of topics. Making this choice was hard. I’m really...
2013-10-09 (first published: 2013-10-04)
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An Experiment Concludes
That was hard work
You may or may not have noticed, but every single week day for the month of September,...
2013-09-30
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Azure Offerings Continue to Expand
We just received word of a bunch of new functionality over at Scott Guthrie’s blog. Not a lot of stuff...
2013-09-27
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PASS Votes
I’ve already made my own intentions clear. I’m casting one of my votes for Allen Kinsel. But, I get three...
2013-09-26
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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
The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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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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