IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???
SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...
2017-11-08
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DBA Resolutions
It’s said that “promises are made to be broken”. Surely database administrators don’t fall in that category? It’s that time...
2016-12-28
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SQL Server on Linux, first observations.
Is this one of those weird food combinations like honey on pizza or salt and pepper on apples that’s going...
2016-11-22
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“Witch” Statistics?
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three...
2016-09-20
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SQL Server, a true Olympian
Suffering SQL Server Performance Issues?: A story of Olympic sprints and handy SQL Server hints!!!
Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest runner,...
2016-08-18
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SQL 2012 Identity Columns Feature
Recently, a customer mentioned that they seemed to be missing records in tables they don’t delete from. Generally, at this...
2016-02-25
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Freaky statistics feature
SQL Server statistics can make things a bit freaky. You might have read one of my previous articles portraying a...
2015-10-30
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SSMS 2016 – Compare Execution Plans
Microsoft are releasing regular CTP updates for SQL Server 2016. In the very recent release (CTP 2.4), there is a...
2015-10-20 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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No thrills about spills
Statistics, in simplest terms, refer to the distribution of data in a column or index. They are represented in a...
2015-09-21
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Work of art – the intra query parallelism deadlock graphs
Look at some of the graphs produced by the intra query parallelism deadlocks, below.
Bart Duncan explains this “phenomenon” (bug, rather)...
2015-09-10
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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