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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Drop roles in Postgres

You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles are granted to it. I had to go fishing to find all the grants to...

2025-01-28 (first published: )

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Data (and Humans) At Rest

We talk a lot about data in the data world – imagine that! Sometimes, we talk about data at rest, but when do we all rest? Do we even...

2024-08-12 (first published: )

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Dates and Languages

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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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