Will GDPR cause a “Database Run”?
What is GDPR, everyone’s (current) favorite acronym? It stands for “General Data Protection Regulation” and is an act / law / set...
2018-02-05 (first published: 2018-01-23)
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Solomon Rutzky
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Server Audit Mystery 1: Filtering class_type gets Error Msg 25713
The other day I ran into an odd problem trying to answer the following question on DBA.StackExchange:
How to filter out...
2018-02-01 (first published: 2018-01-22)
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Stored Procedure / Function / View / Trigger Definitions Can Be Wrong, Even If sp_rename Was Never Used
SQL Server stores the full definition of certain T-SQL objects — Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, and Triggers — in their original form,...
2018-01-09
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Which Collation is Used to Convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR in a WHERE Condition? (Part A of 2: “Duck”)
(If you’re reading this on SQL Server Central, please click here to see the “Featured Image” which will help explain...
2018-01-04 (first published: 2017-12-08)
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PLEASE, Please, please Stop Using Impersonation, TRUSTWORTHY, and Cross-DB Ownership Chaining
(last updated: 2018-03-27)
Despite features added in SQL Server 2005 (yes, 2005!) that allow for very flexible, granular, and robust security,...
2017-12-30
4,188 reads
Which Collation is Used to Convert NVARCHAR to VARCHAR in a WHERE Condition? (Part B of 2: “Rabbit”)
(If you’re reading this on SQL Server Central, please click here to see the “Featured Image” which will help explain...
2017-12-28 (first published: 2017-12-11)
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Sessions, Temporary Objects, and the Afterlife
For thousands of years theologians have offered various thoughts on the question of what happens when we die. Does some...
2017-11-30 (first published: 2017-11-20)
2,007 reads
Line-Continuation in T-SQL
Some (or maybe most?) languages and operating system command shells allow for breaking up long lines into multiple lines (i.e....
2017-11-08 (first published: 2017-10-27)
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All New Collations in SQL Server 2017 Implicitly Support Supplementary Characters
As I was testing whether or not the new “Variation Selector Sensitive” ( _VSS ) Collations in SQL Server 2017 would assist...
2017-10-31 (first published: 2017-10-16)
2,595 reads
SQLCLR vs. SQL Server 2017, Part 6: “Trusted Assemblies” – Whitelisted Assemblies can’t do Module Signing
“Trusted Assemblies”, a new feature starting in SQL Server 2017, is a means of whitelisting Assemblies that one feels pose...
2017-10-09 (first published: 2017-09-29)
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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