Tag Archives: sql server

Do You Deal with UTF-8?

Posted on August 30, 2019 by way0utwest

Microsoft is adding UTF-8 support in Azure SQL Database, and it will be coming in SQL Server 2019. If you don’t know what this is, perhaps you want to read a bit about it, as it can save space if … Continue reading →

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Evergreen SQL

Posted on July 24, 2019 by way0utwest

Colorado is a beautiful state, one that my family and I have enjoyed many times. We like the summer and winter outdoors, including lots of days skiing. We have plenty of trees on the slopes, which is both great to … Continue reading →

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Containers make easy upgrades

Posted on July 10, 2019 by way0utwest

I’ve been working with containers and writing a bit about them for awhile. I find them to be fascinating and useful as a technology, and I’ve come to really believe these will change how we work with the SQL Server … Continue reading →

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Killing FTS

Posted on June 24, 2019 by way0utwest

In almost every application that I’ve helped build, we had a need to perform textual searches of fields. Sometimes this was in short fields, like names, where we usually needed some sort of wildcard search to let users find information. … Continue reading →

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