PASS 2009 DVDs
I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back...
2010-02-05
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Blog Posts
Speaking in Portland, OR and Tumwater, WA the Week of February 8th
I’ll be speaking in Portland, OR and Tumwater, WA the week of February 8th, 2010. The details, and the session...
2010-02-05
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit
It is a good news for developers! Microsoft published the Training Kit for SQL Server 2008 R2.
The content of...
2010-02-05
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SSRS Commonly Required Date Expressions
Reporting Services has many expressions that can manipulate date fields. These expressions can be used just about anywhere in SSRS...
2010-02-05
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They Took Our Name!!
I’ve heard imitation is a form of flattery, and I guess that’s true. Today I got an up close and...
2010-02-05
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Detecting and Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Worker Threads in SQL Server 2005/2008
I had a little bit of excitement with one of my production servers couple of days ago, that I thought...
2010-02-04
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February Question: What is one of your best practices for making full backups and transactions log backups of your production databases?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-02-04
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I think it’s a hole
The other day I was trying to help someone that had removed the BUILTIN/Administrators logins from their instance without first...
2010-02-04
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oPASS Meeting Reminder – February 9, 2010
Our next meeting is February 9, 2010, We’ve got Ronald Dameron coming to speak this month on Database Hardening using...
2010-02-04
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PASS Update #23
January has been a slow month for me as far as PASS involvement, I show about 10 hours logged for...
2010-02-04
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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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