I started out working with Microsoft Access and SQL Server back in 2000 as the only employee doing IT full-time, and worked most of my career where “big fish in a little pond” was an overstatement. Learning is scarce when you do everything and don’t work with anyone who knows more than you. In 2010 I was plunged into the Ocean and grabbed onto anything I could find to stay afloat. I wasn’t going to simply run scripts I didn’t understand, so I learned the DMVs and system tables in the scripts I found and rewrote them all. Now, I know enough where I can start giving back to a community that saved me from drowning.

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I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files.  Then I talked about growing...

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Multiple Collations

Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?

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WHERE ColumnA = ( 'abc' COLLATE French_CI_AS) COLLATE French_CS_AS
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