Developing Your DBA Skills Further Thanks to Experience with Multiple RDBMS
Any DBA who really understands databases and SQL standards can make out with other RDBMSs quite well, and if they...
2010-02-24
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Blog Posts
Disaster Recovery at SQLServerCentral
We had a spammer post a bunch of random, silly posts last week. I knew it was an issue when...
2010-02-24
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Featured Blog: Aloha DBA
If you’ve been around SQL for any length of time it’s hard not to have heard of Brad McGehee, the...
2010-02-24
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I'm Presenting Tomorrow - Zero to Cube !
I’m presenting tomorrow on Zero to Cube in 60 minutes. This is an all Demo Session for work with cubes...
2010-02-24
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Managing user data and response through 'drop boxes'
There are a few ways to get data from a client to your system; FTP or email. Internally we tend...
2010-02-24
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Plan for Failure
Notice I didn't title this "Plan to Fail." We should never plan to fail. That's sabotage. And that ain't right,...
2010-02-24
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Upcoming Speaking Event Schedule
I have a fairly busy schedule of upcoming speaking events (especially for someone with a full-time day job).
I will be...
2010-02-24
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Upcoming SQL Lunch Webinars
If you haven’t attended a SQLLunch, I suggest that you put this upcoming lunch on your schedule. Brad McGehee, SQL...
2010-02-24
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Where Do You Look on the Internet for SQL Server Jobs?
I recently had a SQL Server DBA write to me that they were going to be laid off, and they...
2010-02-24
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Adventures in Webinar Presentations
Over the past several years, I have given 2-3 live web presentations a year, and I have always found them...
2010-02-23
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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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