Before this post gets started, let’s get past the title. I know what many of you are thinking: what in the name of Paul Randal would make someone have...
2020-03-05 (first published: 2020-02-29)
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Before this post gets started, let’s get past the title. I know what many of you are thinking: what in the name of Paul Randal would make someone have...
2020-02-29
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This is not a post about the “optimize for ad hoc workloads” setting on your favorite SQL Server instance, but that is a good place to start. Lots of...
2020-02-27 (first published: 2020-02-20)
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This is not a post about the “optimize for ad hoc workloads” setting on your favorite SQL Server instance, but that is a good place to start. Lots of...
2020-02-20
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Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-02-13 (first published: 2020-01-28)
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Last Friday I spent my lunch break going through some links I had marked for future reading. One of them was a post earlier this month by Erik Darling...
2020-01-28
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FUN FACT: I have been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server for over 20 years. Second FUN FACT: the last time I took a Microsoft certification exam was...
2020-01-24 (first published: 2020-01-18)
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FUN FACT: I have been a Microsoft Certified Professional for SQL Server for over 20 years. Second FUN FACT: the last time I took a Microsoft certification exam was...
2020-01-18
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Twitter is a strange place. I mean, aside from all the outrage practice and animal videos. Last week I sent out a tweet about how I used dbatools to...
2019-10-09 (first published: 2019-10-04)
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This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on...
2019-10-08
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By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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