Finding “Orphaned” database files – script
When you drop a database from a SQL Server instance the underlying files are usually removed. This doesn’t happen however if you set the database to be offline first,...
2019-03-27
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Matthew McGiffen
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Checking Progress of the Creation of your Azure Resources
When I’ve created resources in Azure it’s usually taken from a few minutes and up to quarter of an hour...
2019-02-26
838 reads
There’s got to be a better way
For T-SQL Tuesday #111, Andy Leonard asks “What is your why? Why do you do what you do?”
Like Andy, I...
2019-02-12
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Some differences with SQL Server when running on AWS RDS
If you plan on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your SQL Server based applications in the cloud, then...
2018-12-12
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2018-09-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #106 – The Trouble with Triggers
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Steve Jones asks us to talk about our experiences with Triggers:
https://voiceofthedba.com/2018/09/03/t-sql-tuesday-106-trigger-headaches-or-happiness/
In my post I’m going...
2018-09-12
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2018-07-24
4,974 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 104 – Capture expensive queries with query store
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Bert Wagner invites us to share SQL scripts we’ve written that we’d hate to live...
2018-07-10
294 reads
Cycle Through Your Clipboard History In SSMS
This is my favourite SSMS trick I’ve discovered recently, probably some time towards the end of last year.
Basically, when you...
2018-06-06
1,407 reads
The Importance of ORDER BY
Everyone, at the beginning of their SQL career, get’s told that it is important to include an ORDER BY if...
2018-05-30
420 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers