Say Thank You
I was approached by a man at SQL Bits who only wanted to thank me for blogging. He said, “I...
2014-08-13 (first published: 2014-08-06)
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Grant Fritchey
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Speaker of the Month: August 2014
Speaker of the Month is now officially one year old.
I went back and reread my first post. The goals were...
2014-08-08 (first published: 2014-08-01)
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Challenge Accepted
There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:
Oh...
2014-07-23
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Victims of Success
I took part in the PASS Summit 2014 selection committee this year because I was really curious about seeing how...
2014-07-21
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Execution Plan Details
I wouldn’t say it’s common knowledge that you should look at execution plans when tuning queries, but it’s not exactly...
2014-07-17 (first published: 2014-07-15)
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Speaker of the Month, July 2014
Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...
2014-07-11
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Worst Day of a DBAs Life
Red Gate Software is running a campaign around coping with the worst day of a DBAs life. We’ve been posting...
2014-07-08
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Reflections on the 2014 PASS Summit Selection Process
Oh we are a bunch of high school kids at heart. Maybe high school never ends (and there’s a nightmare,...
2014-07-03
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Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures
Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...
2014-07-03 (first published: 2014-07-02)
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The Curse of Working With A DBA
I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...
2014-06-30
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Blogs
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
4 CPE Opportunity (Virtual) for Charity
By Brian Kelley
Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!
Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is...
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UNISTR Basics
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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