Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for January
Our next meeting will be
on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts
facility...
2006-12-29
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Brian Kelley
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Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond
I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...
2006-12-29
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How to handle an invalid default database
My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...
2006-12-11
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Midlands PASS Chapter is official
A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...
2006-12-11
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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again
Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...
2006-12-09
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SysInternals Tools Updated
Several SysInternals Tools have been updated. One of the big updates was to the PSTools Suite - now you can pass...
2006-12-09
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Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools Available
If you're like me and rely a lot on the resource kit tools, you may have found that it's relatively...
2006-12-09
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Log Buffer #22: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 22nd edition of Log Buffer, a
weekly compendium of postings and news from database-related blogs across the...
2006-12-08
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Extreme Work
"The Productivity Pro" Laura Stack posted in her blog today about jobs where long hours are the norm:
'Extreme' jobs...
2006-12-05
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Guidance on Microsoft Certified Architect Submissions
For those considering the Microsoft Certified Architect program, some guidance on what to submit as documentation has been posted to...
2006-12-05
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Blogs
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
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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