Date Dimension Script with Fiscal Year
One dimension you can be positive will always make it’s way into your data warehouse is the Date dimension. Over...
2012-03-06
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Blog Posts
First SQL Server 2012 Launch Event
I asked a few questions on twitter this morning after a friend of mine said they were have problems downloading...
2012-03-06
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How to log off remote desktop users from a remote machine ?
When you try to log on to a remote server on emergency to perform some task , it may throw an...
2012-03-06
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Introduction to SharePoint BI Webinar Tomorrow
Tomorrow at 11AM Eastern time I will be presenting a FREE webinar for Pragmatic Works (website) on Introduction to SharePoint...
2012-03-06
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Most DBAs Don’t Seem to Know that Transaction Logs Can be Tuned
I was very surprised to see the results of my latest poll, which asked “When was the last time you...
2012-03-06 (first published: 2012-02-27)
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Moving MSDB to new location
In recent past we have a situation where in we required to move MSDB, Model and Master databases to new...
2012-03-06
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Notes from the February 2012 MagicPASS Meeting
I was back at MagicPASS last week to do a presentation, my first time with the group at the new...
2012-03-06
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Second Chances for Plagiarism
I had an exchange with someone that had plagiarized some work recently. That’s nothing new, and I run into plagiarism...
2012-03-06
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SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 R2 upgrade considerations
1) SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services doesn’t support Windows 2003 (or R2) Itanium based servers
2) SQL-DMO support is stopped...
2012-03-06
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SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing (RTM) - Hot MS News!
All, wanted to immediately share the news today from Microsoft regarding SQL Server: This just in from the MVP/MS Newsroom. I'm...
2012-03-06
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Blogs
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
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
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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