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Changing Your SQL Server Name
Is the name of your SQL Server correct?
Why Worry About The Server Name In SQL?
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Changing Your SQL Server Name
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Find all triggers in a SQL Server Database
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What Are Database Triggers?
Do you know what triggers lurk in your database?
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Untrusted Foreign Keys
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Do you trust your foreign keys?
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2014-10-23 (first published: 2014-10-17)
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Do you trust your foreign keys?
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2014-10-17
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I Must Be Doing Something Right – MVP Award
I am extremely excited to announce that I have just received the Microsoft MVP award for SQL Server for 2014.
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2014-09-30
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I Must Be Doing Something Right – MVP Award
I am extremely excited to announce that I have just received the Microsoft MVP award for SQL Server for 2014.
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2014-09-30
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Video: Walk & Talk #003 – RPO
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And why does it matter?
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2014-09-30
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Video: Walk & Talk #003 – RPO
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And why does it matter?
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2014-09-30
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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