Manage Reporting Services using SSMS
Sometimes you’ll want to manage reporting services functionality through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). This would be the case if...
2010-06-29
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Blog Posts
Partition Alignment and Late Night Infomericals
Late night infomercials make some amazing claims. “If you order now you too can cut through a cinderblock wall and...
2010-06-29
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SQL Saturday #28 (Baton Rouge) – All about User Groups
This year at SQL Saturday #28 we will be featuring a User Group Booth alongside the Sponsor booths. The User Group...
2010-06-29
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SQL Server Instance Checklist
This is my third in a series of checklists that I am putting together for a new book designed for...
2010-06-29
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The Breakfast Plan Goes Awry
Here’s the editorial for SSC today and while it’s a humorous story about asking for donuts and getting a free...
2010-06-29
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The Trade Deadline Must be Drawing Near
The Trade Deadline Must be Drawing Near
Okay, so there is no trade deadline in SQL Server like there is in...
2010-06-29
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AWOL: DBA Turned Gardener Temporarily, but Still Obsessed with Transaction Log Files
After 10 Years, a Move Closer to School and Work
Wow, how moving house interrupts life. I can appreciate we have...
2010-06-28
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2010-06-28
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First Performance Virtual Chapter Webcast
Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Tim Edwards (twitter | blog), our fearless leader, and the rest of the crew, the PASS...
2010-06-28
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Function Calls are Evil Incarnate
The following queries look extremely innocent. However, they are all application killers once the target table grows to more than...
2010-06-28
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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...
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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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