Exceptional DBA Award Entries Must Be In By July 10, 2009
If you have been considering entering yourself in the Exceptional DBA Awards this year, or nominating a DBA you know,...
2009-06-25
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Blog Posts
How to Avoid Database Restore Issues by a Simple Script Edit - A DB Restore Work-around
During the process of applying changes to a production database - let's call it Change Management (pick your ITIL or COBIT...
2009-06-25
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My Favorite Bad Movie
My favorite bad movie is The Master Gunfighter starring Tom Laughlin of Billy Jack fame. It’s a Western, and he’s...
2009-06-25
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Plug for a Cool Catalog
Ran across the Levenger site while researching laptop bags and it’s branded as ‘tools for serious readers’. Some of it...
2009-06-25
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Powershell + SMO Error Handling Tips
Allen White posted a helpful post on SMO error handling with Powershell. Actually the same concept equally applies to SMO...
2009-06-25
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Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform
This is part 2 of my 29 part series called Better Know A SSIS Transform. Hopefully you will find the...
2009-06-24
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Dell Mini – The Follow Up
Back in January I posted about purchasing a Dell Mini 9, wanting to see what how it worked and a...
2009-06-24
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SQL Server 2008 Encryption - Extensible Key Management
One of the new features with SQL Server 2008 is the addition of extensible key management, allowing hardware devices to...
2009-06-24
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What’s the Typical Resignation Notice Period for DBAs?
I was recently talking to a friend from the U.K about how much notice a DBA should give to their...
2009-06-24
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Why Do I Blog?
It's late, it's been a busy day, so why bother to spend 10 or 15 minutes at night jotting things...
2009-06-24
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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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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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