Isn’t Consulting Risky?
Small Business Ownership. It’s one of the Great American Dreams. Our forefathers, the founders of the country that I call...
2010-02-09
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Blog Posts
I've been published on Simple-Talk.
I am excited to say I have been published on Simple-Talk. This was my first foray into being professionally edited. I...
2010-02-09
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Join me at the Memphis SQL Server User Group meeting
For almost a year now, I’ve exchanged emails with the leaders of the Memphis SQL Server User Group, trying to...
2010-02-09
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Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Introduction
You may have noticed a flux of new blog post entires yesterday from a group of people talking about the...
2010-02-09
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Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...
2010-02-09
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Relationships - T-SQL Tuesday #3
I missed T-SQL Tuesday #1, but participated in T-SQL Tuesday #2. Now it's time for #3, and I'm making my...
2010-02-09
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Round Two of Insert Benchmark Tests
After seemingly exhausting my physical file layout and instance configuration options in Round One of testing, I decided to “throw...
2010-02-09
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Speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta on February 27
I will be giving my Dr. DMV: How to Use Dynamic Management Views to Monitor and Diagnose Performance Issues With...
2010-02-09
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SQL Server Useful Reading
I have been having an IO subsystem issue recently and I found the whitepapers very useful and wanted to post...
2010-02-09
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What is SQL Server? – Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta
I’m doing a basic presentation at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta later this month on what SQL Server is from...
2010-02-09
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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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