Google Cloud Spanner – Next big thing in the database world?
Last month Google announced the public beta for Cloud Spanner, and I would like to share few details around this since it’s a big news! So, what exactly is...
2017-03-14
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Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!
For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why...
2016-12-22
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Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016 – A match made in heaven!
For all these years Windows Server 2016 is the Windows version I was waiting for, and this blog post will explain why I’m super excited about this! With Windows Server 2016,...
2016-12-22
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When disks have different sector sizes for primary and secondary replica log files in an AlwaysOn Availability Group Config
Recently I was analyzing a stress test result for an AG configuration, and as usual I was reading to SQL error...
2016-11-07
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When disks have different sector sizes for primary and secondary replica log files in an AlwaysOn Availability Group Config
Recently I was analyzing a stress test result for an AG configuration, and as usual I was reading to SQL error logs to see if there is anything out of...
2016-11-07
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Database Level Health Detection – SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn AG got many improvements, and I’m pretty impressed with the log throughput improvements and redo improvements...
2016-07-08 (first published: 2016-06-30)
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Database Level Health Detection – SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn AG got many improvements, and I’m pretty impressed with the log throughput improvements and redo improvements based on some of my test cases(A detailed blog...
2016-06-30
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Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide...
2016-05-01
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Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!
SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide upgrade of SQL Server. Are you thinking of upgrading...
2016-05-01
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Curious case of SYS.MESSAGES
A strange error struck me last week, and this post is all about that.
What you normally expect when you run...
2016-03-15 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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
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Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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