SQL Saturday Pensacola presentation file downloads
I had a great weekend at my fourth annual visit to Pensacola for SQL Saturday, which had many great sponsors,...
2012-06-12
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Will Assaf
Recently Used Tables and Databases
Recently developed these queries to assist with the evaluation of development or sandbox environments. Sometimes disk space demands that old...
2012-05-24
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April Hammond .net User Group Presentation - SQL Server Security and Permissions
Here's the slide deck and sample files from last night's presentation at the Hammond .net User Group. We discussed SQL...
2012-04-26
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SQL Saturday Houston #107 - SQL Server Best Practices with DMV Presentation Files
Thanks for joining me for a standing room only presentation this morning at 9:45am at SQL Saturday #150 Houston. This...
2012-04-21
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SQL Script Toolbox for Developers
I work with a motley crowd of developers and have the opportunity to give lunch and learn training sessions on...
2012-04-20
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Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain and much more
As with every good DBA's toolbox, my blocking list query using sys.dm_exec_requests is evolving.
I've added the following features:
The query execution...
2012-04-19
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sys.sql_modules vs. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Routines
Consider the following two queries meant to search for a keyword in SQL programmability objects.
select s.name +'.' + o.name, o.type_desc, m.definition
from sys.sql_modules...
2012-04-18
1,974 reads
Certification Exams: From the Other Side
Today I took the 70-464 beta exam today "Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases" and after spending the last few...
2012-04-06
766 reads
SQLSaturday #107 Houston
About 3 weeks to go until SQLSaturday #107 at YES Prep Public Schools - North Central Campus, 13703 Aldine-Westfield, Houston, TX,...
2012-03-29
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FILESTREAM and Snapshot Isolation Mode in SQL 2008
FILESTREAM and Snapshot Isolation mode are incompatible in SQL 2008.
In SQL 2008 R2 however...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx
In SQL Server 2008 R2, snapshot...
2012-03-27 (first published: 2012-03-20)
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Question of the Day
Fixing the Error
On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers