August #Meme15 Assignment
I haven’t done a #meme15 blog assignment in a while and figured I would pop one off as the weekend...
2012-08-10
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StrateSQL
August 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Summer is beginning to wrap up for those of us in the northern hemisphere and were finally to August. Maybe...
2012-08-09
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscolumns
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-13 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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Book: Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012
After about a year of work and a month of waiting, the book I wrote with Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt)...
2012-07-10
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdatabases
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-09
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5 Reasons Why I Need To Go To SQLskills Immersion Training
I was thinking about the contest that SQL Sentry is running for a week of SQLskills Immersion Training, and the...
2012-07-07
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconstraints
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-07
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscurconfigs
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-07
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconfigures
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-05
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syscomments
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-07-04
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Resetting on the AI hype train
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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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