Tips for Networking at PASS
This year will be my third trip to the PASS conference. If you have met me or had any conversation...
2009-10-01
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Blog Posts
Eliminating Empty Output Files in SSIS
So you’ve got some packages that regularly extract data to one or more text files, but you know that from...
2009-09-30
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Heading Down to the Basement
I'm taking the next two days off, heading down into the basement for a four day weekend. Nothing particular going...
2009-09-30
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Idea for PASS Summit 2010 – Share Your Other Passions
I’ve had the glimmer of this idea since I posted about the idea of bringing my chair to the 2009...
2009-09-30
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Minor Celebration
A little cheap thrill for me. I passed 50,000 views on the blog yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has stopped...
2009-09-30
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On vs. Where
Does it matter if you put your criteria in the ON clause or the WHERE clause? Well, as with most...
2009-09-30
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Pre-Compiled Stored Procedures: Fact or Myth
There’s a very common belief among DBA’s: Stored procedures are pre-compiled. I had someone tell me all about it just...
2009-09-30
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Referral Contest for PASS Summit
Hopefully you saw it in the special mailing that went out yesterday, but the marketing team just released a new...
2009-09-30
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SQLSaturday #21 Update
We’re closing in on our October 17th SQLSaturday #21 in Orlando and I thought I’d share a few things about...
2009-09-30
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TechEd Online Interview
Back in August at TechEd Africa I did a TechEd Online interview with Frikkie Bosch. Frikkie’s the marketing manager for...
2009-09-30
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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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