Microsoft has a new virtual core offering of Azure SQL database called serverless and this offering optimizes the price performance tradeoff and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage.
2020-01-14
In the event of a breach of personal data, any organization must produce proof that they understand what data they hold and where, and how it is being used, and that they have enforced the required standards for access control and security. To make all this possible, it is essential to build a complete model of the data and its lineage, and a data catalog is the first step in this process.
2020-01-14
Learn how you can modify an SSIS package to dynamically process SSAS cubes.
2020-01-13
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In this tip we look at how to insert and delete data via SQL Server views.
2020-01-13
Learn about programmatically obsoleting unused SSRS reports from your Report Server.
2020-01-10 (first published: 2017-04-26)
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As many companies consider moving data to NoSQL, Cassandra may be the choice. In this series, Shel Burkow discusses design considerations for porting a SQL Server schema to Cassandra. The first article explains the Cassandra primary key.
2020-01-10
Learn how to set up Polybase in containers to access an Oracle database.
2020-01-09
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In this tip we look at what happens if we replace the SQL Server model database with a regular user database
2020-01-09
2020-01-08
Even simple changes that don't look like they will affect anything often do.
2020-01-07
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By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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