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The curious case of the sqlcmd password

Posted on 8 January 20206 January 2020 by randolph

In August last year I posted about a command line parser problem I ran into with AzCopy, which I eventually resolved by writing a batch file and escaping a number of characters in the access token. A week ago, my friend and colleague Steve Stedman (blog | Twitter) came to me with a similar problem
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