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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

SQL Interview 94: SQL Server understanding of date strings blog.greglow.com/2025/12/06/s...

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Opinion: Most Corporate Compliance Training Isn't Training and Doesn't Work blog.greglow.com/2025/12/04/o...

SQL Interview 93: Rebuilding a clustered index blog.greglow.com/2025/12/03/s...

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Fix: SQL Server Reporting Services RDLC report designer and Visual Studio 2026 blog.greglow.com/2025/12/02/f...

A look at the impact of calendar-based time intelligence on #PowerBI DirectQuery performance blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/11/30/a...

Fix: Getting R and Python to Actually Work on SQL Server 2022 and 2025 blog.greglow.com/2025/12/01/f...

Book Review: You Don't Have to Have a Dream, by Tim Minchin blog.greglow.com/2025/11/30/b...

Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

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SQL Interview 92: SELECT without specified order blog.greglow.com/2025/11/29/s...

Book Review: How Not to Become a Grumpy Old Bugger blog.greglow.com/2025/11/28/b...

Too true

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SQL: ANSI string concatenation with the || and ||= operators blog.greglow.com/2025/11/26/s...

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SQL Interview 91: Table variables are in memory structures blog.greglow.com/2025/11/25/s...

Book Review: Simply Said blog.greglow.com/2025/11/24/b...

Just your daily reminder to remember to be sceptical about how AI systems learn. This example from Google Search (and Bing Search had the same issue) from two years back was pretty funny. I've seen AI systems returning results that are just as nonsensical.

Book Review: SQL for Data Analytics blog.greglow.com/2025/11/23/b...

SQL: Echoes from the field 9 - Encryption in SQL Server (Part 2) blog.greglow.com/2025/11/22/e...

Notes on taking Microsoft exams blog.greglow.com/2025/11/21/g...

Book Review: Azure Data Fundamentals blog.greglow.com/2025/11/20/b...

SSMS Tips and Tricks 7.16: Using encodings when opening or saving files blog.greglow.com/2025/11/19/s...

SQL Down Under show 93 with guest Simon Sabin discussing data-related development, AI tools, and the upcoming SQL Bits is now published! blog.greglow.com/2025/11/18/s...

SQL: Echoes from the field 8 - Encryption in SQL Server (Part 1) blog.greglow.com/2025/11/18/e...

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Data Tales 12: The case of the code that refused to execute blog.greglow.com/2025/11/17/d...

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Icons and the real world blog.greglow.com/2025/11/16/g...

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SSMS Tips and Tricks: 4.12 Avoiding deadlocks when working interactively blog.greglow.com/2025/11/15/s...

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SQL: Echoes from the field 7 - Tracking object dependencies in SQL Server blog.greglow.com/2025/11/14/e...

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Writing SQL Queries for MySQL Online Course Released ! We've added a new option to our popular range of SQL courses. This one targets MySQL. If you know someone who needs to get their head around writing professional code for MySQL, this could be a good option. blog.greglow.com/2025/11/13/w...

General: Windows of opportunity beside large companies are often short-lived blog.greglow.com/2025/11/13/g...

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 22 has gone into GA! This is a bit earlier then expected, but also a sign of the amazing work the team lead by @erinstellato.bsky.social Makena Barickman are doing. Go check it out! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

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General: Why large companies hire small companies blog.greglow.com/2025/11/12/g...

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SSMS Tips and Tricks 1.13 Database scoped configurations UI blog.greglow.com/2025/11/11/s...

Perfect headline from @theonion.com again

What I thought I heard: NATO Arms Support. That confused me as I was in a technical session. What the presenter apparently said: Native ARM support. Oh OK.

SQL: Echoes from the field 6 - Controlling stored procedure execution context (Part 2) blog.greglow.com/2025/11/10/e...