How do you secure the SQL Server instance after enabling xp_cmdshell ?
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How do you allow non-administrator to use xp_cmdshell ?
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March #Meme15 Round-up – Facebook
Are you ready for the round-up of last week’s #meme15 Facebook question?
In total, there were eight participants in this month’s...
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Restore fails with tail of log error
For sql server 2005 and above, When you take a full backup of the FULL recovered database and try to...
2012-03-22
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RYO Maintenance Plan – History Cleanup
The last step in our campaign to rid the world of maintenance plans deals with housekeeping: the history cleanup step....
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SQL Server 2012 Unattended Installation on Windows Server 8
In part 5 will install SQL Server 2012 on 3 Windows Server 8 VM’s using GUI and unattended installation to...
2012-03-22
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 3: PowerPivot
Today I’ll be continuing in a blog series designed to help you decide which presentation tool is best for your...
2012-03-21 (first published: 2012-03-16)
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The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
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Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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