hellosqlkitty

Josephine Bush is a Data Platform MVP and has over 10 years of experience as a Database Administrator. Her experience is extensive and broad-based, including in financial, business, and energy data sectors using SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL along with Azure and AWS. She is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Data Management and Analytics. She holds a BS in Information Technology, an MBA in IT Management, and an MS in Data Analytics. She presents at SQL conferences and user groups around the world. She is the leader of the Boulder SQL user group. She blogs on sqlkitty.com and you can reach her on Twitter @hellosqlkitty.

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Kusto (KQL) for Azure SQL Audit

According to Rod Trent, Kusto is named after Jacques Cousteau. He says, “We are exploring the depths of our data” by searching and querying our Azure log data. His...

2024-01-03 (first published: )

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Azure Workbooks

I’m saddened that the Workspace Summary is being deprecated in Log Analytics Workspace. I am trying to reproduce it in workbooks. While it isn’t an exact match, workbooks provide...

2023-12-13 (first published: )

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Temporal Table Data Fixes

I found myself in a situation where I needed to modify temporal tables. We do this outside business hours because we don’t want clients changing data while versioning is...

2023-09-29 (first published: )

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2025 Wrapped for Steve

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I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...

The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world

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This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...

Merry Christmas

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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...

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Finding Motivation

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

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SQL Art, Part 2: New Year Fireworks in SSMS

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The Last Binary Value of the Year

What does this code return?

SELECT cast(0x2025 AS NVARCHAR(20))
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