I Learned Something From You
I learned something from you – that was something someone said to me at the end of a recent consulting engagement....
2013-07-23
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Blog Posts
Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS! I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools that are easily replaced in most cases with...
2013-07-23
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Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS!
I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools...
2013-07-23
1,869 reads
Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)
The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...
2013-07-23
2,859 reads
SQL Server : Understanding Differential Change Map (DCM) Page and Differential Backups
In our earlier posts, we have discussed about different types of pages.Data Pages, GAM and SGAM,PFS page and IAM page. In this...
2013-07-23
2,241 reads
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 CU12
On July 15, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 Cumulative Update 12, which is Build 10.0.5844. I count...
2013-07-23
710 reads
SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 CU5
On July 15, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 5. This is Build 11.0.3373, and I...
2013-07-23
1,494 reads
SQL Server 2014: In-memory OLTP Engine, code-name: Hekaton
What looks to be the biggest and best new feature in SQL Server 2014 is called the “In-memory OLTP Engine”,...
2013-07-23
2,066 reads
SQL Server Quickie #7 – TempDb Latch Contention
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Today I have...
2013-07-23
1,284 reads
SQL Server Webcast: The Day After Tomorrow; Why YOU need to Baseline
Every day I consider myself extremely fortunate to be in a profession that I really enjoy, as there’s always something...
2013-07-23
794 reads
Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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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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