Thursday Night at the PASS Summit
It’s early days for thinking about the Summit, but as I wrote the post for yesterday about not submitting I...
2018-03-30
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Blog Posts
YouTube Channel Update: March 30, 2018
Hey everyone!
Here’s the latest stuff on my new YouTube Channel. Please let me know if these videos are helpful. Also,...
2018-03-30
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‘Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object’ When Failing Over an Availability Group Using SSMS <= 17.5
Here’s a quickie that I’ve just stumbled across.
I’ve just tried to initiate a manual failover of an availability group and...
2018-03-29
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Interview With Matt Gordon
I’ve been wanting to share a little bit about Matt’s story for a while now and this past week I...
2018-03-29
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Learning is Hard–March Goals Update
This is the third update for my goals for 2018. This is about 3 weeks after the last update, and...
2018-03-29
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No Summit Submission This Year
I had three ideas I considered submitting this year:
Devops for the DBASQL ChecklistsLearning Plans v2I’ve presented the first topic a...
2018-03-29
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PASS Virtualization Webinar – April 11
I am proud to present a free webinar for the PASS Virtualization virtual chapter entitled “Level Up Your Cloud Infrastructure...
2018-03-29
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733)
I am so honored and humbled to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733) on May 19,...
2018-03-29
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SQL Script: - How to find the last access date of a database
Sometime we create databases on Test/ Development database servers for temporary uses for short duration and forgot to delete them...
2018-03-29
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SQL Script: - How to find the last access date of a database
Sometime we create databases on Test/ Development database servers for temporary uses for short duration and forgot to delete them after the work got completed. As a part of...
2018-03-29
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Blogs
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
By John
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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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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