SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 1
Sonny Bryans Smokehouse Bbq would make an interesting classroom
Today was the first day of my first SQLskills event. The event...
2011-02-22
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Blog Posts
T Minus Three Days to the MCM Test
I take the MCM test on Friday. I’ve been watching videos and reading white papers and blogs for the last...
2011-02-22
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What Should PASS Be?
Andy Warren posted a question the other day (well, issued a challenge actually), “What Should PASS Be?” I’ll let you...
2011-02-22
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A Wireless Production Server? Sure, Just Enable the Wireless Networking Feature on Windows 2008
Since I have Enabled Wireless on Windows Server 2008, and picked up a better-than-average Asus N wireless card, handling the...
2011-02-21
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Backups after a DR Restore – MCM
If you have a disaster, and you need to restore to some point in time prior to the last log...
2011-02-21
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Blowing Kisses: Un-SQL Friday #003 Roundup
We at MidnightDBA sure do love a blog party, and what’s better than a blog party about love? I invited the...
2011-02-21
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Data Driven Subscriptions for SSRS Report with Parameters from multiple data sources
Just to give the context of the problem I faced recently.. our application is very data intensive, GB of data received...
2011-02-21
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Hello, My Name is Hugo and I haven't Blogged in Two Months
Oh gracious sin 🙂
No apologies, just that life gets in the way from volunteer work.
My regular political passions have gotten in...
2011-02-21
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How Should the PASS Nominating Committee Be Selected?
Over the past few months, the Elections Review Committee (ERC) has been looking into how the community should select its...
2011-02-21
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How Should the PASS Nominating Committee Be Selected?
Over the past few months, the Elections Review Committee (ERC) has been looking into how the community should select its future leaders in the PASS organization. We started with...
2011-02-21
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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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Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
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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