published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...
2022-04-21
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Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
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We have a fair number of pretty large databases, and I was having a hard time scheduling full integrity checks to run at least once a week. For a...
2021-05-18
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This came up because a user had db_owner perms and it was only reading from a database and creating a table variable from it. I created a new user...
2021-04-05
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I wanted to find out what data types SQL Server auditing was using, so I put the auditing file results into a temp table and executed tempdb..sp_help on that...
2021-04-04
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This is a super simple way to retain the data and settings that you create and change on your SQL Server Docker instance. There’s a lot of talk about...
2021-02-21
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2021-02-20
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There are three ways to get into bash in a docker container: docker exec -it containername bash docker exec -it containername “bash” docker exec -it containername /bin/bash Once you...
2021-02-15
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A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Every year, the South Carolina State Internal Auditors Association and the South Carolina Midlands...
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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';
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