Alessandro Alpi

Alessandro works in the IT since 2000. He started the DBA career since 2005. It's CTO and co-founder of Engage IT Services S.r.l. in which he's the Team Leader. He manages the development team with a continuous improvement pattern using agile practices. He designed the SQL Server automated deployment in his company using the RedGate tools and Visual Studio Team Services. Thanks to this, he's now Friend Of RedGate. Alessandro is also a teacher for SQL Server and ALM topics and a Translation Community Contributor on the official MS documentation. He's staff member of GetLatestVersion.it. He is also the organizer of some italian online and offline events, like PASS SQL Saturdays and DevOpsHeroes. He's the local organizer of SQL Saturday Parma. He's Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner.

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A 2015 full of DLM

After SQL Saturday Pordenone, I’ll keep speaking about DLM (aka ALM on databases) during the following events:
PASS Italian Virtual Chapter, April 14. I’ll demonstrate...

2015-03-24

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A 2015 full of DLM

After SQL Saturday Pordenone, I’ll keep speaking about DLM (aka ALM on databases) during the following events:
PASS Italian Virtual Chapter, April 14. I’ll demonstrate...

2015-03-24

264 reads

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Question of the Day

Dates and Languages

The string, listopad, translates to a month name in different languages. If I were to run this code, what values are returned? 

DECLARE @yourInputDate  NVARCHAR(32) = '28 listopad 2018';

SET LANGUAGE Polish;
SELECT CONVERT(DATE, @yourInputDate) AS [SL_Polish];

SET LANGUAGE Croatian;
SELECT CONVERT(DATE, @yourInputDate) AS [SL_Croatian];

SET LANGUAGE English;

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