Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 1: Report Services
As Business Intelligence has evolved over the years the number of tools we have to choose from for presenting data...
2012-03-01
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Blog Posts
Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are?
Finding...
2012-03-01
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Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are? Finding Linked Servers SQL Server has provided us means...
2012-03-01
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March Question: What tool(s) do you use to help you identify and tune slow performing queries?
Tuning poorly performing queries is one of the most important jobs of the DBA. With this in mind, this month’s...
2012-03-01
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Smart Car Charging
I don’t know if electric cars are the answer, but I do think electricity will play a larger part of...
2012-03-01
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Speaking at oPASS on March 8th
I will be at oPASS on March 8th (Thursday) in Orlando, Florida. I'll give a preview of the talk I'm giving...
2012-03-01
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SQL Saturday # 103 in Curacao a Success
On 25th of February 2012, Curacao hosted its first SQL Saturday event. The event was held at the University of...
2012-03-01
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sql server scripts and managing databases
Managing a large SQL Server inventory requires an efficient management processes.
Following on from DBA productivity and less is more , this...
2012-03-01
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A Script A Day - Day 25 - Performance Counters
Today’s script is based on performance counters and in particular the sys.dm_performance_counters DMV. There are many ways in which to...
2012-02-29
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A Script A Day - Day 26 - RESTART a Database Restore
Today’s script is another one based on database restores. There is a little known clause of the RESTORE DATABASE command...
2012-02-29
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Blogs
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...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
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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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