Audio and slides are up for my webinar on SQL Server encryption
The webinar audio and slides/demo scripts are up for the presentation I did for the PASS Security virtual chapter.
PASS Security...
2013-07-19
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Blog Posts
Best SQL Server Podcast and Video Sites (Hangout)
My friend Boris Hristov (Blog | Twitter) continues his Google Hangouts initiative, and this week he invited me to talk about...
2013-07-19
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Energy news that caught my eye
I’ve been a big fan of nuclear energy ever since I worked at a power plant. Before that I was...
2013-07-19
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More on Finding Bad Links On Your Blog
Yesterday I mentioned using the Google Webmaster Tools to identify some bad URL’s here on the blog. I decided to...
2013-07-19
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Security Cameras in the Neighborhood
I live in a pleasant, calm, middle class neighborhood. Not much crime here, at most the rare break-in or vandalism,...
2013-07-19
726 reads
SQLSaturday#235 NYC - The Schedule You All Have Been Waiting For!
Late last night in the
Halls of Congress, a grand gathering of planners took place to form that
which we...
2013-07-19 (first published: 2013-07-18)
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SSAS Joining Facts at Different Granularities
In an SSAS cube you sometimes need to connect a dimension at a different granularity than other dimensions. For example,...
2013-07-19 (first published: 2013-07-15)
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70-457 Reviewer #04, Implement a Migration Strategy
Upgrading an instance is a process in which you upgrade an existing instance of SQL Server to SQL Server 2012....
2013-07-18
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Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes to column updates
If you have a set of columns inside your table that you want to allow nulls in, however if one...
2013-07-18
1,236 reads
Fixing Bad Links Found Using Google Webmaster Tools
I’ve been doing various clean up tasks this week related to the blog, with part of that being a review...
2013-07-18
826 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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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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