Brad Shultz's blog on reviewing your database
Reblogged from SQL Studies: This is possibly the best blog I have every read on the subject of reviewing a...
2013-09-18
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Blog Posts
CIO Report; 14 things you need to know about Data Storage Management
Reblogged from Imtech ICT UK Blog: Original Article: CIO recently published a detailed article on the 14 things you need...
2013-09-18
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Cumulative Updates - SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU6
As part of their Incremental Service Modelling, Microsoft have released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #6.To apply this cumulative update package, you must be running SQL...
2013-09-18
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First Presentation – Post Mortem
So it is done, it being my first presentation at a professional event. As you may recall, I recently presented...
2013-09-18
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The Dangers of Detach
I ran across a twitter conversation about a post recently. The post talks about detaching or attaching databases in bulk....
2013-09-18
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#TribalSQL: A new book by new voices in SQL Server
Two years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of unpublished authors to...
2013-09-17
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Brad Shultz’s blog on reviewing your database
This is possibly the best blog I have every read on the subject of reviewing a database. It is witty,...
2013-09-17
707 reads
Debugging database mail issues in your SQL Server with T-SQL
Problem. Your database mail suddenly stopped sending out email notifications on completed jobs and tasks. You try to send out...
2013-09-17
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Don't Rush When It Comes to Privacy Data
The Dataloss list sent the following article through yesterday afternoon:
Obamacare Employee Accidentally Sends Out 2,400 Social Security Numbers
This is concerning,...
2013-09-17
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Encryption Decryption Routine
In this post we will look at a complete end to end routine for encrypting, storing, decrypting data in SQL...
2013-09-17 (first published: 2013-09-11)
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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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