What do recruitment agents do for contractors?
WIN at IT contracting: A FREE guide showing YOU How to get the most out of Recruitment Agent Relationships
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2018-03-01
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Blog Posts
A day in the life of a Sr DBA/Dev
If you are a Sr DBA or developer you have probably had some variation of this conversation at multiple points...
2018-02-28
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A gotcha when switching partitions
When working with partitioning the SWITCH operation has to be my favourite. The ability to move a large amount of...
2018-02-28
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A Guide for Decrypting SQL Server Database Objects
Overview
The SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide a new feature for encrypting data to protect it from...
2018-02-28 (first published: 2018-02-16)
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Automating Database Deployment: Part 4 Making Changes Using RoundhousE to Migrate the Database
With the Automating Database Deployment: Part 3 Running RoundhousE post we walked through running a RoundhousE deployment for the first time to create the database and several database objects. Script naming...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Blocking Locks and Deadlocks
Situation Your query is waiting for another query and the other query is doing nothing. Blocking Locks A blocking lock...
2018-02-28
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Dates and Times in SQL Server: SMALLDATETIME
Last week I spoke about a world wary data type for storing dates and times in a single column, with...
2018-02-28
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Doing DevOPs for your Database? You need to start here…
I’ve been doing that thing called DevOPs for about 17 years – you know – before it had a name…
In fact it...
2018-02-28
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New Built-in Function STRING_AGG() – SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 introduces a set of useful functions like STRING_AGG(), STRING_SPLIT(), TRIM()… and many more. In this tip, I am...
2018-02-28
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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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