Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 2 Table Design
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-21 (first published: 2013-06-18)
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Blog Posts
Reblog: June 14 to June 20
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-06-21
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Azure First
Microsoft has been pretty clear about their commitment to the entire Azure infrastructure. The updates to Azure come out on...
2013-06-20 (first published: 2013-06-17)
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Creating Real World PowerPivot Models Recording and Q&A
Thanks everyone for attending my free webinar on Creating Real World PowerPivot Models on June, 18, 2013. If you were...
2013-06-20
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Disaster Recovery’s big brother Operational Recovery
I’m going to get slammed for the title by someone but I stand by it. First some definitions.
Disaster Recovery...
2013-06-20
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Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #8: Adding Calculated Measures
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-06-20
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 1 Statistics
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20 (first published: 2013-06-17)
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Natural Born Killers (The series) – Day 4 Indices
To those that don’t know me “Natural Born Killers (The Series)” sounds like a very strange choice for a SQL...
2013-06-20
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SQL Server Running Slow
A user calls to say the app or server is slow today. Here’s a quick summary of how I get...
2013-06-20
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TechEd North America 2013 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2013 and they are available for free! What a...
2013-06-20
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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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Searching for my own posts
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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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