Template Explorer Gold Mine
Sometimes as a newbie to SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) you don’t know about the little gold...
2018-03-27
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #62 - Achieving Healthy SQL with MDW
Today:
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 is the 62nd entry and first T-SQL Tuesday
of the year 2015, and I am honored to...
2018-03-27 (first published: 2015-01-13)
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Women in Technology - All are welcome!
I was at SQL Saturday 723 in Rochester, NY last weekend. I was selected to deliver 2 sessions, and I...
2018-03-27
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Azure SQL Database and Cost Threshold for Parallelism
We all know that the magic figure for cost threshold for parallelism is 5 by default, meaning if the estimated...
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-16)
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Backup and Restore Options for Azure SQL DB
I have decided to do a summary blog post on backup and recovery options for Azure SQL Database. If you...
2018-03-26
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Introducing The Blame Game
Introducing the Blame Game! Someone has messed up the new anatomy application’s (Mr. Body) performance and no one is willing...
2018-03-26
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead? webinar
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I will be doing a webinar on that very...
2018-03-26
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Is the traditional data warehouse dead? webinar
As a follow-up to my blog Is the traditional data warehouse dead?, I will be doing a webinar on that very...
2018-03-26
71 reads
Notes on SQLSaturday Tampa 2018
Quick notes:
Same location as previous years, good!Parking was same place, but it was confused by a pay-to-park event on the...
2018-03-26
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PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
Mark Williams and myself will delivering a seminar called #Not the GDPR news in Cardiff on...
2018-03-26
318 reads
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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