JTDS & Grails
Recently I had the chance to do some tuning on a system that was built using Grails (formerly Groovy on...
2011-02-28
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Blog Posts
Memory Consumed By SQLServer
Have you wondered how much memory was being consumed by SQL Server? Have you wondered if there was a way...
2011-02-28
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Memory Consumed By SQLServer
Have you wondered how much memory was being consumed by SQL Server? Have you wondered if there was a way to find out that information from a tSQL command?...
2011-02-28
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My Upcoming Schedule, Come Get Your Learn On!
It’s official, I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #63 April 2nd. It is something near and dear to my heart, solid state storage....
2011-02-28
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SQLskills SQL Server Immersion Training: A Retrospective
Last week I attended the inaugural training event of the new four-week SQL Server Immersion Training offered by Kimberly Tripp...
2011-02-28
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SSAS - Preserve Measure Null Values
Generally when designing a data warehouse (at least in my experience) you don’t think about NULL values appearing often in...
2011-02-28
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SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules – Part 1
As you will see by the dates in my screenshots, I wrote them quite a while back while touring the...
2011-02-28
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Adventure Works Sample Database Diagrams
Most of my examples utilize either adhoc type of data samples or one of the versions of AdventureWorks. I do...
2011-02-27
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Quests Performance Monitor Counters Poster
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Kevin Kline, Brent Ozar, Christian Bolton, Bob Ward, Rod Colledge and...
2011-02-27
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SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 5
Overview
Today was the fifth and final day of the Internals & Performance immersion event. I have really enjoyed learning from not...
2011-02-26
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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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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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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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