One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
Comparison of the new methods of splitting strings in SQL Server 2016 to the tried and true methods
Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
A basic introduction for developers (or anyone) about reading the metadata of a SQL Server database from a .Net application.
Its possible to use some comparable expressions to a full regular expression library for matching certain patterns with T-SQL using the like operator. This tutorial uses these expressions for filtering price phrases involving alphabetic, numeric, and special characters
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers