T-SQL Tuesday #43 Crossing the Streams
Hello Dear Reader! This post finds me back in Boston getting ready for the Pragmatic Works Performance Tuning Workshop. But...
2013-06-11
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #43–Hello, Operator?
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this one is a bit of a challenge for me. Rob Farley is hosting, and...
2013-06-11
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Upcoming Presentations
Just a quick note to let you know about a few upcoming presentations I’ll be doing. This week I’ll be...
2013-06-11
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Vacation Notes
First stop was Philadelphia, mostly because we scheduled our vacation to coincide with SQLSaturday #200, but also because we had...
2013-06-11
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 5 – Installing SharePoint
Let’s get started with the next step in the series: installing SharePoint. We will install only the software, but we...
2013-06-10 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 8 – Verifying PowerPivot Integration
After configuring SharePoint in the part 7, we will now verify if the configuration was successful and if everything works...
2013-06-10
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June 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Today is the second Monday of June and guess what I didn’t publish last week? That’s right, there wasn’t an...
2013-06-10
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #36
For those that follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of...
2013-06-10
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PowerShell – Identify Service Account & Other Details of SQL Services – Multi Server Script
One of my friend requested me to give a mutli server script to pull SQL Service related details. Here is...
2013-06-10
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Praise and a Suggestion for AlwaysOn
One of my favorite additions to SQL Server 2012 is the Availability Groups, referred to as AlwaysOn. These things are...
2013-06-10
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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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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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