Lock Pages in Memory
It is generally recommended that 'lock pages in memory' be enabled for your SQL Servers to prevent the OS paging...
2010-06-25
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Blog Posts
Powershell Fundamentals
I’ve had the opportunity this week to take class with Don Jones (blog | twitter), PowerShell guru and author of PowerShell...
2010-06-25
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Speaking and Presenting Tips - Bullets
I’ve heard this before, it came up in the Tufte seminar I took, and it also was something that grated...
2010-06-25
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The ‘addicted to data’ decade is still in its infancy
“Content is king” is the golden rule of the SEO. The semantic web is all about data. Any web or traditional application has no value without data. Few people...
2010-06-25
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The ‘addicted to data’ decade is still in its infancy
“Content is king” is the golden rule of the SEO. The semantic web is all about data. Any web...
2010-06-25
11 reads
The Exceptional DBA of 2010
I’ve been a judge in this contest for the last 3 years, and each years we’ve had really good finalists,...
2010-06-25
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What Has Jack Been Up to?
It has been awhile since my last post mainly because I was on a working vacation in northern New England...
2010-06-25
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Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 6
Today we’ll try to finish up by looking at a couple of the semi-interesting parts of the code in this...
2010-06-24
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Guest Editorial on SSC – Selling Used Cars/Experience Requires Repetition
I’ve been experimenting with stories in the editorial, experiences of my own that are amusing and have some kind of...
2010-06-24
933 reads
MDX webinar
Today I did a webinar on MDX solutions. For those of you interested you can grab the slides here and...
2010-06-24
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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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UNISTR Escape
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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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