Network throughput testing with iperf3
Have you ever wondered if that black box in your datacenter called the network is performing as well as it...
2015-10-13
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Blog Posts
PASS Speaker Idol 2015 – Todd Kleinhans
To All-
I am truly grateful I have been selected for this unique contest: http://www.dcac.co/your-pass-speaker-idol-2015-top-12-are
Good luck to all of my fellow...
2015-10-13
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Power BI Tips, Tricks & Best Practices Webinar Recording & Materials Now Available
Thank you to everyone that attended my Power BI webinar last month, September 29th. Sorry its taken me a while...
2015-10-13
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Power BI Tips, Tricks & Best Practices Webinar Recording & Materials Now Available
Thank you to everyone that attended my Power BI webinar last month, September 29th. Sorry its taken me a while...
2015-10-13
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Putting Corrections in Perspective using Power BI
My enthusiasm for analyzing stock market data using Power BI – even after publishing two posts recently (this and this) – is at...
2015-10-13
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Running Parameterized Queries against SQL Server using PowerShell
For many years I didn’t really think about the implications of how I was retrieving data from my SQL Servers...
2015-10-13
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SQL Data Generator–Masking Production Data
I learned a new trick with SQL Data Generator that I wasn’t aware of previously. I think this is a...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-09-30)
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SQL server Encryption – Transparent Data Encryption
In the previous blogs we saw the use of certificates to encapsulate symmetric keys. How it benefits the user by...
2015-10-13
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Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database
One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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A tSQLt Mistake – Debugging a Test
While I was working on a test the other day, it kept failing. Not a big surprise, but I couldn’t...
2015-10-12
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers