Headed to Cocoa for SQLSaturday #231
I’m leaving mid-morning today to drive to Cocoa with my family for a beach weekend and SQLSaturday #231. I’ll be...
2013-07-26
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Blog Posts
Page Split Mini-Series - Part II - Page Latch Contention
Last time, in Part
I of my page-split mini-series, we began speaking about page
splits, defining what they are, how they occur,...
2013-07-26
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Reblog: July 19 to July 25
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-07-26
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Rebuilding server level collation setting
Scenario You have just completed setting up a new development database server for a new project. After that, everyone in...
2013-07-26 (first published: 2013-07-19)
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SQL Server Login Errors
Hello Dear Reader. Quick blog today. If you are working in the SQL Server world eventually you will try to...
2013-07-26
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The SQLAndy Rules for Storing Credit Card Numbers
I’ll try to write more about these over the next couple months, but I wanted to write down a quick...
2013-07-26
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Webcast Presentation Materials: 5 Amazing Reasons DBAs Need to Love Extended Events
If you are looking for a presentation that brings together bacon, unicorns, and lightsabers, then you should have seen my...
2013-07-26
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70-457 Reviewer #07, Resolving Concurrency Problems in SQL Server 2012
This topic is part of the lessons covered in Optimization and Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 which is 14% of overall...
2013-07-25
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Blog Images and PNG Compression
I’m not terribly good at putting at least one image in every post. The images I do use are either...
2013-07-25
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Crash when inserting to a FileTable with a parallel plan
Whilst doing some ad-hoc work on some data on a 2012 SP1 instance I came across an issue with the...
2013-07-25
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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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