DWH Workshop material
As announced in my DWH workshop in Munich, you can find here my
whole ETL solution. Thanks for attending my workshop...
2011-02-15
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Blog Posts
February Update
I haven't written anything for a while and again, for the second month running I missed TSQL2usday. It's a shame...
2011-02-15
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MagicPASS February 2011 Meeting
If you're in the central Florida area you're invited to the February 2011 meeting of MagicPASS, South Orlando's SQL Server...
2011-02-15
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More info on nested views causing performance problems
As if I needed any further convincing that nested views were bad....
The other day I had to write a particularly...
2011-02-15
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Presenting "Secrets Of SQL Server" Idera Webcast On Feb. 16
On Wednesday, Feb 16th, 3 PM Eastern I'm presenting a webcast for Idera's Secrets of SQL Server series. Presentation details...
2011-02-15
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Recent AMD Processor News
AMD has released five new specific models in their Opteron 6100 series line. Of these, the one you should be...
2011-02-15
468 reads
Redgate’s Free SQL Search Tool
I have been using this tool for quite a while and just remembered that I haven’t written a blog about...
2011-02-15
2,137 reads
SQL Saturday #60, Cleveland Speaker Evals
I just received 35 speaker evaluations from SQL Saturday #60 in Cleveland. It was a great event (although I had...
2011-02-15
1,018 reads
The DBA Ultimate Fitness Workout Plan
If you plan to stay on top of your DBA game then you have to workout regularly.
Those of you that...
2011-02-15
732 reads
UN-SQL Friday #003–Vendor Love
The love that dare not speak it’s name… Yes, love for vendors. <shudder> Oh, I mean I love my new...
2011-02-15
594 reads
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...
Forums
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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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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