SSIS Training class by Andy Leonard
Andy Leonard (b | t | l | f) of Linchpin People, has announced a new training class called ‘From Zero to SSIS‘. The first class...
2014-01-30
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Blog Posts
Start/Stop Group of Azure VM's
If you've already configured your local machine's PowerShell environment to interact with your Azure subscription (see here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/), then you can...
2014-01-30 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Starting to Use Powershell
I have to admit that before the Powershell Challenge, I wasn’t really looking forward to using Powershell for much of...
2014-01-30
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Uninstalling SSMS on Server Breaks SQL Powershell
I reviewed my daily report and saw that some jobs failed on six instances overnight, the common factor being that...
2014-01-30
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Your own personal space
Somewhere to relax, get away from it all (by all I mean pesky Developers wanting code deployed on a bleeding...
2014-01-30
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[SQL Snacks Video] Importance of COPY_ONLY Backups
There are many features/options we sometimes overlook and then wonder later what went wrong. The COPY_ONLY option with backups is...
2014-01-29
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Forcing Results To Conform For Exports
This one is a bit off for me. I've had to make SSIS exports kick out in specific ways such...
2014-01-29 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Have You Studied SQL Server Enough?
Photo Credit – yum9me
SQL Server is a fairly big and complicated product. There are quite a few areas that you can...
2014-01-29
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 02
Introduction
In the first part of this discussion, I discussed step by step instructions pertaining to getting up and running with...
2014-01-29 (first published: 2014-01-27)
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Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 04
Introduction
In yesterday’s discussion we looked at populating entities and their related attributes. In today’s discussion we shall be concentrating on...
2014-01-29
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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
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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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