Vinay Thakur


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Blogging

Hi,
Yesterday while talking to my friend, he reviewed my blog and suggested that I was having so many spelling...

2009-10-13

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Select count(*)

Today I was reading(I always read Paul Randal).
http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Which-index-will-SQL-Server-use-to-count-all-rows.aspx
I learned that whenever you query select count(*) it will select the the...

2009-10-09

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How Log reader works- replication

Just saw the the answer by michael Hotek for how log reader works on replication: looks very great:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreplication/thread/d2d2e1c6-01ee-439b-93e8-e31c77c0cd28/Thanks Michael Hotek...

2009-09-03

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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?

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