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ASF 034: Alex Yates interview (part 1)

Introduction Alex is a Data Platform MVP who loves DevOps. He’s has been helping data professionals apply DevOps principles to relational database development and deployment since 2010. He’s most...

2020-11-04 (first published: )

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Last Week Reading (2020-08-02)

Press ADF Release Notes 07/31/2020 I believe this is the first Release Notes from ADF Team. Working with Git repositories in Azure Pipelines Multi-repository access and more. DevOps for...

2020-08-02

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Last Week Reading (2020-07-12)

Press Azure resource providers operations List of all of the available ADF-specific RBAC permissions. Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure The power of What-If within ARM Template deployments. Collecting custom...

2020-07-12

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ASF 032: Jennifer Stirrup interview

Introduction Jennifer Stirrup is a data strategist and technologist, Microsoft Data Platform Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft Certified Trainer, founder of Data Relish Ltd, diversity and...

2020-07-02

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Last Week Reading (2020-06-28)

Press ExpandString in Powershell This function can do much more than you think. Pester – using -should -throw Useful example when you want to filter output by ExceptionType or ErrorId....

2020-06-28

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T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup

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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...

Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access

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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...

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I am off to Live 360 today, on my last trip of the year....

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Question of the Day

A Strange Result

What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?

select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';

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