A Quick Look at Travel
I was experimenting with visualizations the other day, and started playing with SandDance, a tool from Microsoft that you can use in Power BI or Azure Data Studio. I’ll...
2019-12-24 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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The Voice of the DBA
Take the 2020 State of Database DevOps survey
It’s still 2019, but we’re looking forward to 2020 and wonder how your world has changed since our survey last year. There are a number of questions and this...
2019-12-13 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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How Serverless is Working in Azure SQL Database
When Azure SQL Database introduced the serverless option, I decided to try it. I moved one of my databases to the tier, though I had to move to a...
2019-12-10 (first published: 2019-11-27)
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Cleaning up the [NOT] NULL for Columns with SQL Prompt 10
SQL Prompt 10 is out and there are a few interesting things that have changed in the product. One of these is the Quick Fixes, inspired by some other...
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Data Masker Reads Column Classificiations
One of the newer features in Data Masker for SQL Server is the ability to read column classifications and suggest rules to clean the data. I decided to give...
2019-12-02 (first published: 2019-11-22)
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Setting Certificate Backup Permissions for an Instance–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I was testing some security change, and...
2019-11-20
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Getting Started with SQL Prompt 10
This week we released SQL Prompt 10, which is an exciting milestone for us. I remember when I discovered this little gem for Database Weekly and sent it over...
2019-11-15
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Batch Scripting SQLCMD–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I wouldn’t do this anymore, but I ran...
2019-11-22 (first published: 2019-11-13)
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New HA Licensing Benefits
Microsoft announced recently that they were changing the way licensing works for HA and DR situations. I think this is a great change, and the summary is: You can...
2019-11-11
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Focusing on Business Value
This was a fun talk with David Atkinson at Redgate. We talk satellites, finance, and more. Including some early history of the company. We are talking about how to...
2019-11-14 (first published: 2019-11-08)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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