An interesting mystery on why some nHibernate performance issues might exist on your systems. Read this piece from SQL Server expert David Poole and look to see if this is a problem you can easily solve in your environment.
2011-04-11
6,142 reads
For Day 7 of this series, I will talk about the incredibly useful CPU-Z utility, which is available for free...
2011-04-11
1,791 reads
I’ve explained the database design process in a series of articles that you can find here. In this tutorial, I’ll put that information to good use and design a database from the start of the process to the finish. To keep this example to a single article, I’ll not repeat the information from those previous articles, so make sure you look those over before reading this one.
2011-04-11
5,179 reads
An interesting use of T-SQL to run a stored procedure as part of a SELECT statement to get a result set to be used and combined with other tables. From Eli Leiba, learn how you can build a stored procedure into your queries.
2011-04-08 (first published: 2009-10-29)
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How do you check if you are a sysadmin? It’s fairly easy to do in Management Studio. You can go...
2011-04-08
2,355 reads
When it comes to the subject of putting databases into source control, Troy Hunt is no shrinking violet. “Database source control is no longer negotiable”. In this article, published originally in his Blog, Troy explains how to do Continuous Integration from a database that is in a Version Control System (VCS).
2011-04-08
4,700 reads
As I recently discussed, I often hear from database professionals who are not allowed to access their database servers directly....
2011-04-08
1,487 reads
What do you do first when developing a data warehouse? MVP Andy Leonard brings us a look at the foundation he uses, which might surprise you.
2011-04-07
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Getting at data within a .NET application can be straightforward using built in controls or much more complex through connections,...
2011-04-07
2,075 reads
Marcin Policht discusses ways to launch processes for remote systems using SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services.
2011-04-07
3,153 reads
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers