PowerShell ISE Crashes
Working with PowerShell brings a lot of advantages and power to help manage a server. The more current your PoSh...
2018-11-19
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Jason Brimhall
Monitor Database Offline Events
Hopefully, a database being taken offline is a known event and not a surprise. Occasionally there are gremlins, in the form of users with too many permissions, that tend...
2018-11-15
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Audit Database Offline Events
Knowing when an event occurred within the database environment is a very important thing. Being able to act quickly when certain events occur is equally as important. Sometimes, we...
2018-11-13
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Audit Database Offline Events
Knowing when an event occurred within the database environment is a very important thing. Being able to act quickly when...
2018-11-13
951 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #108: New Horizons Beyond SQL Server
There comes a point in one's career when a change is requisite. Big or small there always seems to be a tipping point that mandates some sort of change....
2018-11-13
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Refresh SQL Modules
As is true in most facets of life, things tend to get stale and old. Sometimes this staleness can be visibly represented as the wrinkles on your face. Other...
2018-11-09
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Refresh SQL Modules
As is true in most facets of life, things tend to get stale and old. Sometimes this staleness can be...
2018-11-09
2,265 reads
Cannot Use the Special Principal – Back to Basics
Cannot use the special principal 'dbo'. This error message can be misleading. This article will take you on a journey of common mis-steps along with the appropriate fix for...
2018-11-07
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Quickly Change SQL Job Owners
It is not unusual to find a server where some random user created a bunch of jobs to be run...
2018-07-26 (first published: 2018-07-16)
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T-SQL Tuesday #104: Just Can’t Cut That Cord
We all have our favorite scripts, tools or utilities. Those are the things that help make our jobs easier. Some...
2018-07-20 (first published: 2018-07-10)
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Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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The Microsoft SQL Year in Review
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: The || Operator
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Your Value from a Conference
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Question of the Day
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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