DataZen Dashboards Update
I’ve spend a good three days on and off working with the new “Microsoft” DataZen dashboard tool and I think...
2015-04-29
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DataZen Dashboards Update
I’ve spend a good three days on and off working with the new “Microsoft” DataZen dashboard tool and I think...
2015-04-29
695 reads
Excel in T-SQL Part 1 – HARMEAN, GEOMEAN and FREQUENCY
Today’s blog will be the first in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, starting with HARMEAN, GEOMEAN...
2015-04-29
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MySQL TinyInt treated as Boolean
When working with a MySQL database as a source you may experience some unexpected results in your data extracts. Most of the...
2015-04-29
2,799 reads
Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.2: Finding Outliers Visually with Reporting Services Box Plots
By Steve Bolton
…………Throughout this series of amateur mistutorials in using SQL Server to identify outliers, we have repeatedly seen that...
2015-04-29
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Rebuild Indexes of database with fragmentation more than 30%
Rebuild of indexes is the prime job of a DBA as heavily fragmented indexes can degrade query performance and cause your application...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-18)
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Running Powershell scripts remotely.
I’ve only recently started to play with Powershell (PoSH) but even I’ve begun to discover what a huge number of...
2015-04-29
1,599 reads
They Can Do What? – SHUTDOWN - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesMany times the DBA is faced with the dilemma of granting excessive...
The post They Can Do What?...
2015-04-29
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Tracking Table Usage and Identifying Unused Objects
One of the things I hate the most about “old” databases is the fact that unused tables are kept forever,...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-20)
16,280 reads
Using SSIS Lookup Transformation in ETL Packages
Lookup is one of many transformations available in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Its purpose is to perform a JOIN of...
2015-04-29
17,747 reads
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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
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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