24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview Edition
The latest 24 Hours of PASS (24HOP) event will start at 12:00 GMT on July 31, with 24 back-to-back one...
2013-07-30
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Blog Posts
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #10: The Data Bar
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-07-30
1,741 reads
How secure is your IT career? Really?
I was reading some articles from my favorite influencers in LinkedIn and I came across this one. I was enlightened...
2013-07-30
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Miscellaneous Reading for July 2013
Must read blog: Sacha Chua. Lots of info on going solo, being productive, sketch noting.Related, if you’re trying to manage...
2013-07-30
1,122 reads
Partitioning Deck, Demos, and Recording Live!
Hello Dear Reader! This week finds me up in Jacksonville at Pragmatic Works HQ. I'm a little behind in getting...
2013-07-30
1,720 reads
SQL Server 2014: Columnstore Index improvements
In SQL Server 2012, a new feature was added called Columnstore Indexes that resulted in huge query performance improvements. In SQL...
2013-07-30
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Thank you, Mr. Solomon
On one of the newsgroups I follow, I received a message that David Solomon will no longer be teaching seminars...
2013-07-30
1,412 reads
Using Google Charts With AngularJs
I recently rewrote a small webpage in AngularJs and it was amazing how much lighter and cleaner it made the...
2013-07-30
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Using MSX and TSX to scale out your maintenance plans
For our front office alone, I manage about 15-20 SQL database servers. Add to that other database servers that I...
2013-07-30
1,342 reads
A Long Summer Vacation
Based on a bit of luck/happenstance I’ve been able to stretch my summer vacation to two months. I had planned...
2013-07-29
1,280 reads
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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