I’m Going to SQL RALLY!
Hello Dear Reader, I’ve just received great news I’M HEADED TO SQL RALLY 2012! But I didn’t get here on...
2012-02-27
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I’m speaking at SQL Rally 2012
I’ve learned that my session entitled “Introduction to Data Quality Services” has been selected as one of the community choice...
2012-02-27
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Learn Mirroring with me at SQLRally
I just found out that I will be speaking at SQLRally Dallas in May. I submitted 3 sessions. As an...
2012-02-27
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New Article: Exploiting SQL Server via CONTROL SERVER permissions
I have a new article up at MSSQLTips.com, covering what someone can do with CONTROL SERVER. Most folks know to...
2012-02-27
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Passing BIGINT data to SSRS Sub Report
Few days back one of my team mate complained to me that one particular sub report is failing randomly with
Error:...
2012-02-27
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Presenting Two Sessions at SQLRally
I just received great news that one of my sessions, Attacking SQL Server, was picked by the community for SQLRally....
2012-02-27
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Update Statistics
Another key component of any good maintenance plan is updating statistics. Statistics are what help the SQL Server optimizer choose...
2012-02-27 (first published: 2012-02-21)
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SSRS 2008 Error – The report definition is not valid
Recently I downloaded a file from one of our production server, did some changes and reviewed it in BIDS and...
2012-02-27
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The Armor of Transparency
Yesterday I blogged about hosting a daily status meetings and some of the tricks I use to make it work....
2012-02-27
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How to remove new line character from string using SQL ?
In a varchar column some of the entries were showing space in the left side and even after using the...
2012-02-26
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Blogs
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...
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
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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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