A Note and a Message: T-SQL Tuesday #193
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....
2025-12-26 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to my past self and from my future self
It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw Mike Walsh’s topic for T-SQL Tuesday #193, I was intrigued and inspired – “Notes to...
2025-12-24 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike Walsh. Mike’s call for us is to end the year on a poignant note –...
2025-12-24 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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More fun with Git: git restore
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The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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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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