Creating a large data warehouse in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data warehouse: Microsoft Azure SQL Database and SQL Server...
2015-03-30 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blog Posts
Intro to SQL Server Automation with PowerShell
March 26th, 2015, a date which will live in infamy!
Well, at least for me it will. March 26th, 2015...
2015-03-30
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Latches, Spinlocks & Lock-Free Data Structures Recording
A few weeks ago I have spoken at the SQLRally Nordic conference in Copenhagen about Latches, Spinlocks, and Lock-Free Data...
2015-03-30
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 4: Peirce’s Criterion
By Steve Bolton
…………In the last couple of installments of this amateur series of self-tutorials on outlier identification with SQL Server,...
2015-03-30 (first published: 2015-03-20)
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 5: Interquartile Range
By Steve Bolton
…………The last seven articles in this series of mistutorials on identifying outlying values in SQL Server database were...
2015-03-30
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SQLPort – 5 Years
On 21st of April 2015, SQLPort is preparing a very special event. The reason for this is that on 21st...
2015-03-30
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System Center for the SQL Server DBA Part I: SCOM
Originally posted on Blog Home for MSSQLDUDE:
I’ll start part 1 of the Microsoft System Center series, focused on what...
2015-03-30
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System Center for the SQL Server DBA, cont’d SCOM Pack for SQL
Originally posted on Blog Home for MSSQLDUDE:
My original posting on System Center Operations Manager for SQL Server DBAs start...
2015-03-30
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Toshiba Portege Z30 Review
I saw recently that Grant Fritchey wrote a review of his laptop, the Portege Z30. I had noted Grant’s issues...
2015-03-30
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PASS Excel BI VC presents Devin Knight on Getting Started on PowerQuery
Come join us Thursday April 2nd for an Excel BI virtual chapter session at noon central with Pragmatic Work’s Devin...
2015-03-29
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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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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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